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Swallowed Revenues. Of all Egyptians, the industrial worker has fared the best under Nasser. Next to him comes the fellah, the timeless peasant working the timeless land. It was the jest of 1952 that Nasser's foremost ambition was to raise the fellahin at least to the living standard of the gamoosa, the water buffalo of the Nile. He has more than succeeded. You can see it simply in the fellah's clothes. But also the fellah, who used to have meat only once or twice a year, now eats it at least once a week...
...addition to being wrong in principle, the recent decision on the Cum Laude degree in General Studies (CLGS) will make it possible for certain unscrupulous alumni to reap a windfall profit. I myself intend to jest that by appending the once-noble phrase "Cum Laude" to my job and school applications, though it did not appear on my diploma...
...theory that "the more blues the investors sing, the closer we are to bottoming out." As of last week, most analysts were forecasting-or at least hoping-that the market will rally somewhere between 585 and 600, then slowly climb back. But it is only half in jest that Wall Streeters warn that when almost all of them agree on something, they are likely to be wrong...
...Musial's wry jest had come true two seasons back, no Cardinal fan would have been much surprised. At 41 and in his 21st big-league season, "Stan the Man" has survived long past a ballplayer's professional life expectancy. His contemporaries - Ted Williams, Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Owen, Jackie Robinson - are fishing, running bowling alleys, and collecting votes for the Hall of Fame. Yet Musial, his reflexes still sharp and his aging muscles still limber, keeps right on playing leftfield for the Cards with a young man's speed. And each time he uncoils from his familiar...
Yazid's mild jest did not obscure the real importance of the occasion. In a single night he had driven 500 miles to Tunis from the Libyan capital of Tripoli, where the Algerian National Revolutionary Council had been in session, to tell waiting newsmen of the cease-fire agreement with France. By an overwhelming vote, the council empowered Premier Benyoussef Benkhedda to conclude the agreement as he saw fit, without the need of obtaining further council approval...