Word: harring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...part of the world never known for unity, the oil-rich countries of the Middle East have been unusually har monious in demanding "akthar, akthar" (more, more) from the Western oil consortiums. The loudest voice has come from Syria, which has no wells but makes do with the next-best thing: a 305-mile stretch of the pipeline through which the Iraq Petroleum Co. pumps oil from its Iraq field to the Syrian port of Baniyas on the Mediterranean. Last week, after weeks of futile negotiations on new rates, Damascus seized the pipeline "to achieve the full rights...
...nations in the Commonwealth are predominantly black, brown or yellow. Thus, on the basis of membership alone, the Commonwealth might be expected to deal harshly with the rebel regime of Ian Smith in Rhodesia, where 220,000 whites now rule 4,000,000 black Africans. But British Prime Minister Har old Wilson has ruled out the use of force against Rhodesia, insisting that economic sanctions will compel Smith to back down. So this week, as the 16th Commonwealth conference begins in London, Wilson faces a crisis over Rhodesia that threatens to tear apart the British-reared family of nations...
...signed by, among others, John Hancock), Damon has made a name as an innovator. In 1934 he introduced the idea of a bank issuing a letter of credit for individual auto buyers. (He recently recalled: "I said to myself, Good God, if I can do this for International Har vester or Mack Truck, why can't I do it for the guy who's going to buy a Chevrolet?") Only last June Damon came out with Bankcardchek, an imaginative new system combining revolving credit, traveler's checks and a checking account. The first to applaud Damon...
Peace & Reason. Author Butler measures the price of Hastings in terms of the man who died there and the man who survived to wear the crown. Har old, he says, had little chance to lay his hand on England's future-but that little was enough to judge him. To secure insurrectionist Northumbria be fore the Norman invasion, Harold ventured north-the first English king in years to do so-protected only by a royal bodyguard and armed only with a passion for peace and reason. On a kingdom accustomed to aggressive war he imposed the principle of defensive...
...does nothing but technical work, and, he says, "the more complicated it is, the more fun." It takes only five or six hours to train a controlman to minimal standards, but beyond that, there is all kinds of scope for a good man. What a controlman really likes is "har"--short for harassment. The more shifts from one tape to another, or from tape to live broadcast; the more "splits"--when there is one thing to be run on AM and another at the same time on FM; the more times he is recording something that will be used later...