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...about Hoagland's hard look is that the circus seems more fascinating than it ever did from the grandstand. Hoagland, who has himself worked at jobs like Fiddler's during summer vacations, gets off a series of brilliant set pieces: the big top going up, a sudden flare-up of fighting among the elephants, the sadly hilarious wedding day of a stupid wino and a used-up prostitute; and all through the book he weaves descriptions on the big, handsome cats that top anything of the kind in fiction...
...That decision was largely made by one man, Premier Nuri es-Said, 67, onetime officer in Ottoman Turkey's army, who is regarded by many as the ablest statesman in the Middle East. Last week Nuri was busy putting together a new administration. In one of those sudden flare-ups that happen in the Middle East (and rate a baffling, brief paragraph in the U.S. press), Nuri had gone to his 20-year-old king, Feisal II, to quit. Two hours later he had a new Cabinet, chosen to speed up the domestic-reform program Iraq has launched...
...lawyer in Houston, he worked his way up to the position of top attorney for Texas Financier Jesse Jones. In 1928 he began wondering why El Paso was using costly synthetic gas. while in the Permian Basin, 200 miles away, residue gas from oil wells' was being flared as waste. Kayser raised $6,000,000 in capital, formed El Paso Natural Gas to build the pipeline. (El Paso, unlike most other gas-transmission companies, has built most of its own pipelines.) Part of the flare gas that came through this first 217-mile line turned out to be "sour...
...jackal howled as the Israeli troops fanned out to feint at the Egyptian flanks. As a flare burst over the 1,400-ft. hilltop, the Jewish infantry crawled past boulders to the attack. It was a hand-to-hand bayonet fight. The Egyptians resisted fiercely, and the hilltop did not fall until past midnight. By that time an Egyptian battalion spearheaded by eight tanks rolled up from the rear to counterattack. The Israelis said they knocked out two tanks before withdrawing downhill and into their own territory. They listed five dead, 18 wounded. They claimed 50 Egyptians killed, 49 taken...
General George and four other executives went out in the 1953 flare-up, forcing Hughes to move in fresh executive talent. In as general manager ten months ago went Laurence Hyland, an able onetime Bendix executive with plenty of drive to push both research and production, keep building up the staff. Since 1949, Hughes Aircraft's payroll has jumped from 750 to over 20,000; the research and development division alone has 2,000 topflight men against less than 100 seven years ago; one out of every ten scientists and engineers holds a Ph.D., one of every four...