Word: gulf
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...Named for a Gulf of Suez port (through which pilgrims pass on the way to Mecca) where a harmless variety of vibrio was first found. Only later was the virulent form of El Tor found in Celebes...
...year reign, Emir Abdullah as Salem as Sabah transformed his Connecticut-sized sheikdom of Kuwait from a poverty-plagued sand pile at the head of the Persian Gulf into the world's most prosperous Arab state. With a national income of $30,000 a year per native family, his 468,000 people became the wealthiest on earth. The rea son: beneath the waterless desert lies one quarter of the world's oil. Though that fortune was all his own by dynastic right, Sheik Abdullah squandered none of it on sybaritic pleasures, used his billions in royalties to drag...
Last month Curtis negotiated the sale of 110,000 acres of mineral-rich Canadian land, as well as 141,000 acres of Pennsylvania forest, to Texas Gulf Sulphur. The transaction should bring in some $24 million, which could wipe out most of Curtis' $28 million bank debt -down from $36 million after the sale of Curtis' Lock Haven, Pa., paper mill earlier this year. "We are over the hill," says the vice chairman of Boston's First National Bank, Serge Semenenko, the financier who put together a $35 million loan for Curtis in 1963 and has been...
...wall of objectivity between us and that day two years ago--not consciously, but necessarily, because so much has changed. Comparisons between Johnson and Kennedy are rare now, not because we forget, but because the pace of events of these years gives such comparisons a tinge of unreality. The gulf is already too wide for us to say with any security what Kennedy would have done, much less thought, about the issues that concern...
Planes & Ships. The U.S. first bombed the north in August 1964 in tit-for-tat retaliation for a torpedo-boat attack on two Seventh Fleet destroyers in the Tonkin Gulf. Regular bombings began last February; since then U.S. and South Vietnamese planes have flown more than 50,000 sorties against the enemy. The 800 planes in use range from the old prop-driven Skyraider, whose fond jockeys insist that it can fly home with nearly as much enemy lead in it as the four tons of bombs it can carry out, to the droop-nosed, brutal-looking...