Word: geralds
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AMREX is the brainchild of Gerald Jackson, 43, a former real estate agent and farmer. He developed the concept of AMREX while teaching real estate at the University of California at Berkeley. In the course of his research he discovered that local ownership of a random sample of prime property in the Los Angeles area had dropped from 90% in 1945 to close to 40% by 1965. Deciding that such absentee buying could be better handled through a central exchange of sorts, Jackson started a West Coast exchange in 1968 with a local real estate firm. Though business was uneven...
Egyptian President Anwar Sadat managed to hog the rug, but Gerald Ford didn't seem to mind not getting the full red-carpet treatment on his first visit to the Middle East. In Egypt, the former President stayed at the Aswan Oberoi along with another tourist, the Shah of Iran. Ford, accompanied by his wife Betty, also stopped off in Israel. "I came as a private citizen," he said, and hence felt little compunction about beating a hasty retreat from a dinner with Premier Menachem Begin. After all, Private Citizen Ford had a date to watch the Super Bowl...
THOUGHTS IN A DRY SEASON by Gerald Brenan Cambridge University Press 177 pages...
...only thing wrong with this book of delights is its title, taken from T.S. Eliot's Gerontion: "Thoughts of a dry brain in a dry season." Despite the calendar, which says he is 84, Gerald Brenan has a luminous mind and an ageless talent. His collage of quotes, aphorisms and observations, in the style of Cyril Connolly's short masterpiece, The Unquiet Grave, deserves a permanent place on the night table. Opened at random, it will provide a refreshment, and occasionally a shock, on nearly every page. Brenan can sometimes be wrongheaded, but he is never dull...
...great advantage they possess, which more than makes up for the little they usually earn." The words may jump and snarl, snap and bite when Brenan sits down at his own desk. But when they march onto his page, they almost always perform marvelous and original tricks. - Gerald Clarke...