Word: landed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...land that Ayub took over five months ago was so corrupt that even such tolerant agencies as CARE and the Catholic Relief Services had given up on it; gifts clearly labeled NOT TO BE SOLD invariably ended up, not in the hands of the hungry, but in the hands of the black-marketeers. Soon the effects of the bloodless military takeover began to be felt. Streets became clean, bus queues orderly, scooter-ricksha boys unexpectedly polite. Instead of dragging themselves to work any hour of the morning, government clerks began showing up at 9. General Ayub jailed about 100 politicos...
...jobless in wretched slums. Ayub ordered new housing projects; with a stroke of the pen his Rehabilitation Minister gave permanent title to 6,600,000 acres in the Punjab to 1,400,000 refugees. The new program cuts two ways. Under the law, the refugees can lay claim to land with the same value as that which they left behind. Now faced with the threat of prison for filing false claims, 5,500 refugees have decided to withdraw or reduce their claims...
...Most sweeping of all Ayub's reforms is aimed at Pakistan's entrenched and greedy landlords, 6,000 of whom together own 7,500,000 acres. Henceforth, no owner shall be allowed to hold more than 500 acres of irrigated or 1,000 acres of non-irrigated land. The rest will be divided among his tenant farmers. Though owners will be in part compensated in government bonds, those holding feudal jagirs-the gifts of the Mogul kings to their favored warriors-will not. Eventually, as Ayub knows, the lasting benefits of his rule will depend on how well...
Daisy of Maldon. Even if a proposed expedition is irreproachably scientific, wheedling is not easy. Every set of outward-bound scholars wants free cameras, sleeping bags, Aqua-Lungs and cars. One persuasive undergraduate was able to separate two Land Rovers some years ago from the firm that makes the rugged, cross-country cars, but lesser gifts are more common. Toilet paper, for some reason, is showered on expeditions, and not long ago a Cambridge expedition received several cases of highly negotiable whisky...
...frontier in archaeology. Last week Piero Nicola Gargallo, 30, a skindiving Italian marquis, was telling how he found the ancient Etruscan seaport of Pyrgi. On the Tyrrhenian coast just north of Rome, the city is known from historical records, but only minor traces have been found on dry land...