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...purple bougainvillaea. It is rich, not from oil but from oil revenues of more than $3 billion a year, poured in by sheiks from Kuwait and Saudi Arabia; they flock to Beirut to play among a people who speak their language and understand their needs. Moreover, 92 banks flourish on deposits from Arabs who are distrustful of their own governments and appreciate the Swiss-like secrecy enforced by law. Recently, Intra Bank of Lebanon bought the 28-story Canada House on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue for its U.S. branch...
...climate for a free economy. He called for individual freedom to help insure the fulfillment of the "whole man." He attacked the Democrats for using too much governmental power at home and too little abroad in the struggle with Communism. The goal of the U.S., he said, was "to flourish as the land of the free, not to stagnate in the swampland of collectivism, not to cringe before the bully of Communism." In a phrase reminiscent of Wendell Willkie's acceptance speech in 1940, he cried: "Only the strong can remain free; only the strong can keep the peace...
...Good Lord raised this mighty Republic to be a home for the brave and to flourish as the land of the free. Now my fellow Americans, the tide has been running against freedom. Our people have followed false prophets. We must, and we shall, return to proven ways-not because they are old, but because they are true...
...attendance for the entire run of the recent Dubuffet show in Paris-granted that it was not at the height of the season-was 8,000 to 9,000. Here at the Guggenheim, we have that many people on a single Sunday." Alloway believes that "schools of painting flourish under anxiety and affluence," and New York has both. But Manhattan Critic Harold Rosenberg argues that on balance, "the concept of a world art capital is obsolete. Art flourishes in New York because New York is a kind of global city, a kind of momentary focus of global art which exists...
...editorial course. In 1958, for example, the Enquirer endorsed Republican C. William O'Neill for Ohio Governor, while the Post plumped for Democrat Mike Di Salle. Separation was part of a calculated Scripps-Howard effort to allay suspicions of monopoly, and to demonstrate that competition can flourish even in a one-ownership newspaper town. Last week Scripps-Howard's Ohio stronghold was under Government siege. In a suit filed in Federal District Court in Cincinnati, the U.S. Department of Justice's antitrust division demanded that the Enquirer be severed from Scripps-Howard's 18-paper chain...