Word: got
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...such that he can blithely riffle through the "In" box in Nasser's office. A word from him, and a journalist or foreign businessman gets an interview with the U.A.R. President. When a research employee was jailed for reporting critically on Egypt's economy, Heikal not only got the man freed and the report released but also forced Intelligence Chief Amin Huweidi to write a letter-to-the-editor explaining why he had tried to suppress the report in the first place. Lamented Huweidi later: "Centers of power are supposed to have been abolished, but one big power...
When a law was passed in 1960 putting papers under the jurisdiction of the Arab Socialist Union (Egypt's only political party), Heikal went straight to Nasser: "I got his assurance that, if we could grow, make money and not compromise the revolution, there would be no problem." Rarely has there been...
...only getting better and better. Wages are going higher, and hours are getting shorter. People have got to have a place to spend it." That is the basic business maxim of Kirk Kerkorian, the travel-and-leisure entrepreneur whose retiring manner belies the fact that in 20 years he has amassed a fortune estimated at $275 million...
Like many wartime pilots, Kerkorian started his own little airline after the war. His capital investment was $17,000. The company, Los Angeles Air Service, kept busy mainly by flying gamblers to Las Vegas. Kerkorian got to know them and their town well...
...ride on our bikes," the girls were way ahead of him. "Don't tell us any more," said one. "We know how to flirt." The drugstore loafers needed no instructions in hostility. "Are you a Commie? You on welfare? You got V.D.? Or hepatitis?" The questions followed the movie makers as they filmed onlookers from Arizona to Baton Rouge. On film, they retain the sting of spontaneity and conviction. The only query that could have hurt-Can you make a movie?-was never asked...