Word: kuwait
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year reign, Emir Abdullah as Salem as Sabah transformed his Connecticut-sized sheikdom of Kuwait from a poverty-plagued sand pile at the head of the Persian Gulf into the world's most prosperous Arab state. With a national income of $30,000 a year per native family, his 468,000 people became the wealthiest on earth. The rea son: beneath the waterless desert lies one quarter of the world's oil. Though that fortune was all his own by dynastic right, Sheik Abdullah squandered none of it on sybaritic pleasures, used his billions in royalties to drag...
Ambassador Talat AI-Ghoussein of Kuwait looked bewildered as he stared at the three-tiered wedding cake in the party-packed penthouse of Washington Hostess Perle Mesta, 84. "I don't know why I'm here," admitted the ambassador. A lot of the other capital society types were wondering too. Then Perle led them over to meet Television Actress Inger Stevens and explained that the "wedding reception" was cooked up to "celebrate" Inger's "marriage" to a "Congressman," played by William Windom on The Farmer's Daughter. The show's producers had promised the sponsors...
...Milk in Kuwait. The language barrier, thanks to expert dubbing, is the most readily surmounted. Japan uses classic Kabuki actors to speak for Bonanza's Cartwrights, although their services often cost as much as the purchase price of the tape. Subtitles come much cheaper, but audiences in the richer nations like Germany won't abide them, viewers in the poorer ones can't read them. Not that a lot does not get lost in the translations. In the original version of a Zane Grey Theater episode, the villain burst into a saloon, hammered his fist...
Other times the mistranslations are on purpose. In Moslem Kuwait, government censors changed the villain's order to: "Give me a glass of milk." Kissing scenes are also deleted outright in Kuwait, limited to a wham-bam five seconds in Lebanon. At the same time, a Danish programmer complains that "American shows are too Victorian in their morals...
Most of the world's 200 desalinization plants, though, from Kuwait to Aruba to Chocolate Bayou, Texas, operate on the "teakettle technique," the colloquial name for multistage flash distillation. In this system, sea water is heated and sprayed into a low-pressure chamber where it flashes into steam. As it passes through a series of similar chambers, even more fresh water is steamed off until, in the more efficient operations, an average of 3½ gallons of sea water is turned into a gallon of fresh. So pure is the result that sometimes a jigger of such contaminants...