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What Is a Farm? The Smouha affair, or the Smouhaha, as London wags inevitably called it, arose over the fanciest deal struck in a lifetime of shrewd dealing (cotton, moneylending, land speculating) by one Joseph Smouha, longtime operator in the Persian Gulf, Lancashire and the Levant, and known as the richest British subject in Egypt. This was his acquisition of 700 swampy acres on Alexandria's outskirts. He got Farouk's father, Fuad I, to proclaim it "Smouha City" and, while holding about half as low-tax "farm land" for future speculative profit, turned the other half into...
...Best known for his successful campaign to push through Italy's liberal land reform law, Segni in 1955 put together a Cabinet that lasted longer (22 months) than any since the heyday of the late Alcide de Gasperi. This time, with a Cabinet of Christian Democrats only, he hopes to be invested with the help, or the helpful abstention, of all Italy's right-wing parties, including the Liberals, Monarchists, and neoFascists...
Segni's critics say that his chief attraction, aside from his kindly personality, is his scrupulous avoidance of vigorous action. But his patchwork Cabinet may be around awhile nonetheless. Among his fellow politicians he is known as "the cracked vase"-an allusion to an Italian proverb which says that a cracked vase often outlasts an uncracked one because everybody handles it so tenderly...
Periodically over the centuries, the area known as the Borinage gives a twitch of excruciating pain, and all Belgium suffers. Death has always been close by in that flat, depressing southern region...
...consider abandoning its school that I am making these bequests." The gifts: $100,000 to be added to a scholarship fund already bearing his name; $500,000 for a Krumb chair of mining; about $3,000,000 to make the School of Mines "one of the most efficient, best-known and largest schools of its kind in the world, with a reputation second to none...