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...simple, twenty-minute without oratorical flourish or , it revolved around one unmakable fact...
...certainly desirable but it should be constructive, and calling names serves little purpose. I hope Iranian students in this country, who hold many views, will avoid extremist positions, and rather study and work for the welfare of their country, so that Iran and all its admirable traditions will flourish long after they, Dr. Mossadegh and Mohammed Reza Shah are gone. Richard N. Frye Aga Khan Professor of Iranian
...shouldered his way up to head the Arab Bank of the Middle East, only to lose all his capital when he fled Israel as a refugee. Rounding up $4,000, he opened a currency exchange office in two dingy fourth-floor rooms in Beirut. With typical flourish, he named the operation "International Traders." Says he: "We had to have a name out of all proportion to our size to impress people...
However, in many parts of the state, apparently incongruous views flourish side by side. In Northern Arkansas, for example, they consider themselves progressive: a great deal of new industry has settled there recently (to escape creeping unionism in St. Louis), and they boast that they have no Negro problem. But the fact is that there hasn't been a Negro in the area since 1942--and he was found hanging from a tree the next morning...
Belatedly, the flapper is beginning to flourish in Russia. Called chuvikha (slang for female), she dabbles in sex and tipples vodka, cares more about fashions than factories. Russian cartoons criticize her rebelliousness, lampoon her fickleness. With heavy Victorian moralizing, the press points out the tragedies of good girls gone wrong. Stimulated rather than appalled by all this attention, the chuvikhi lap it up. Last week they had another heroine...