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Whether a stock market professional is a bull or bear, there is one sure way to get his goat: imply that investing is comparable to gambling. Howard J. Samuels, who is setting up a string of legal horse-race wagering parlors for New York City, did just that last week. He disclosed that his Offtrack Betting Corp. planned to run ads headlined: IF YOU'RE IN THE STOCK MARKET, YOU MIGHT FIND THIS A BETTER...
Pentagon officials have long conceded that there are bound to be some "horror stories" among the approximately 22,000 contracts that the military services let each year. Kaufman insists that "literally every contract is a horror story." He cites case after case of overruns, from the Gama Goat, an amphibious cargo carrier that cost $304 million more than expected to develop, to the C-5A and General Dynamics' F-111 fighter-bombers, which went up from $4,000,000 to $13.7 million each...
Born in a goat-hair tent to a family of desert nomads, Gaddafi combines the traits of a hell-fire-and-damnation preacher, a willful millionaire and a Western-movie gunslinger. Last November, when Syrian General Hafez Assad toppled his Baathist rivals and took over, Gaddafi jetted into Damascus to inspect the new leader. He demonstrated his approval by leaving a check for $10 million. Like a political jack-in-the-box, Gaddafi has flown, unannounced, to Egypt for spur-of-the-moment meetings with Nasser and to Algeria for discussions with President Houari Boumedienne. When a group of Sudanese...
...John Bagot Glubb ("Glubb Pasha"), also imposed an ever-increasing degree of internal order, forbidding the gazu and destroying the tribes' stockpiles of arms. Civilization, in the shape of the road and the automobile, ended the demand for camels and forced the nomads to fold up their goat-hair tents and drift into towns and villages. Today the Beni Sakhr prosper by dealing in real estate and farming 100,000 acres of land planted in grains...
Mailer's easy verbal facility made listening to him hard work: required a mental mountain goat to jump from this theoretical jut to that craggy intellectual ledge. Styron was easier listening: he told you anecdotes in the familiar idioms of home, and you could rest during his pauses for verbal regroupings: he had the virtue of relaxing you more-though when you reached your bed it likely would be Mailer's words that nagged and clanged and rumbled hotly through your mind. Had Heaven planted them as religious saplings, Mailer might have grown into Elmer Gantry or have taken...