Word: jordan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Saudi Arabia's King Saud keeps some $20 million there, and Jordan's King Hussein has several secret accounts (he signs his checks on one account with a pen name, "The Eagle"). Such depositors appreciate the fact that Lebanon has one of the world's freest capital markets and a Swiss-like secrecy law so rigid that any loose-tongued banker can be jailed for two years. Beirut's safety has also impressed some of the usually suspicious sheiks of the Persian Gulf. Sheik Shakhbut of Abu Dhabi, who earns $1,000,000 a week from...
...head resident had been walking down Shepard Street when the youth grabbed her from behind. She twisted free and ran into Jordan J, where she phoned the police...
...stretchable wools, hottest pattern is houndstooth checks. "The coffee-shop look is out," says a Philadelphia fashion coordinator. "It's been replaced by the clean look." Boston and New York, headquarters for Ivy League shoppers, agree. Charles Stanwood, divisional merchandise manager of New England's mammoth Jordan Marsh, claims campus fashions are moving toward "the refined look, the fun look, more of a suburban look." Others feel it is Paris, not suburbia, that has influenced college styles, point to the pants suit and the figure-skimming A-line dress. Nonetheless, whether it is Courreges who gets the credit...
Thailand's King Bhumibol and his beautiful Queen Sirikit, Jordan's plucky King Hussein and Lynda Bird Johnson, all mingled merrily in the throng at the royal ball in the Athens palace gardens. Searchlights blazed a cross in the sky under a three-quarter moon, and tiaras winked thick as fireflies as 1,600 guests danced under the giant cypress trees, sipped champagne, and ate lobster and chicken off plain white plates with stainless steel cutlery...
...other and went their several ways, the fuse had been lit for the third round of war between the Arab states and Israel. It is a long fuse, and a slow one-so slow that it could easily sputter out before explosion. The diversion of the tributaries of the Jordan cannot begin until funds are raised and expensive dams built. What with Israel's threat and the violent disagreements that still plague the Arab world, it will be remarkable if a single gallon of the Jordan ever moves from its normal course...