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Prohibition came to Kuwait as deviously as an Arab horse trade. In theory only Christian residents of the predominantly Moslem nation could drink, using ration cards to obtain whisky through London's Gray Mackenzie & Co. Ltd., which has had an import monopoly on Kuwait's liquor flow for decades. In fact, Moslems imbibed increasingly, and drunken-driving fatalities mounted apace. The nation's stricter religious leaders then teamed up with local merchants who resented Gray Mackenzie's lucrative monopoly to introduce a prohibition bill in the Kuwaiti Assembly. With voting a matter of public record...
Chaucer visited Italy in the 14th century, and Shakespeare patterned numerous plays on Italian scenarios, but it took the Renaissance's archetypical gentleman, Castiglione, author of The Book of the Courtier, to import the pictorial arts to Britain. A diplomat to Henry VII, he brought as a gift a portrait of St. George by Raphael...
Britain needs to import vast quantities of food and raw material to live, but it seems increasingly unable to afford the price of these imports. Although British exports are still among the world's highest and have risen steadily in absolute terms, the nation's share of world exports has been steadily declining. A measure of Britain's plight is that the Beatles' 1963 overseas earnings of $56 million was hailed as a major contribution to the balance of payments. Another measure is that in the past decade Britain has almost exactly reversed positions with Germany...
Egyptians can now afford to eat more than their farmers can produce. Demand for food has been twice as great as expected, and consumption of imported meat has soared 58%. Prices have spiraled, the black market flourishes and queues for food are an everyday sight in Cairo. Last week, faced with the unpleasant fact that a measure of austerity is the inescapable price of a crash development scheme, the government took the drastic step of banning the slaughter and sale of meat three days out of each week. It's back to corn and beans for the Egyptians...
...streets. It was at the time scarcely worth its price of 100; it was a tangle of printer's errors, garbled copy, unscannable headlines and whole pages run upside down. Unable to subscribe to a domestic wire service, the Daily Press limped along with a British import, Reuters Ltd., and the Dow-Jones ticker. It cribbed unabashedly from radio newscasts, engraved photos snapped directly from the TV tube...