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...wealth, and prestige is the A.D.. The A.D. has an opulent club house, but either the steward is trying to cut down on the electricity bills or the A.D. boys play in the dark, because the A.D. looks totally deserted at night. The A.D. had a lean year for attracting sophomores last year...
However lush the writings, the photographs are almost invariably lean and telling. Duncan's instinct is for a photographic plain speech that puts all the emphasis where it belongs, on the subject, and almost none on the technique. At its best, this gives his pictures a marvellously laconic poetry, as in the shot of an Afghan tribesman washing his cups by the side of a lake in the Hindu Kush. Or a deserted cottage in Connemara, hemmed and compressed to the edge of survival between two gray bands of sky and tumbled rocks...
Under a scorching sun in Tripoli last week, Libya's Colonel Muammar Gaddafi beamed as troops equipped with Soviet rocket launchers and Czech armored personnel carriers paraded past his reviewing stand. Overhead, eight French-made Mirage jets zoomed by. Gaddafi, a lean, intense Arab zealot of 29, was understandably pleased. The parade not only marked the second anniversary of his rise to power; it also celebrated the establishment of a new Federation of Arab Republics, which Gaddafi had been instrumental in founding...
Grander Suspicion. On May 25, 1969, Heyerdahl- 54 years old, lean, and tan- again put out to sea, nagged by an even grander suspicion. Reviewing 60 cultural parallels between ancient Peru and ancient Egypt (including pyramids and reed boats), Heyerdahl asked himself: It Peruvians could sail by bal sa raft to the Polynesian islands, might not the Egyptians have sailed by reed boat to Peru? Or at least from Mo rocco to Mexico...
...aside enough money each year to meet pension obligations. In some cases, fund managers plowed millions into speculative stocks during the 1968-69 bull market only to see their investments shrivel during the 1970 slide. Other companies did not bank enough money during lean years, and are now burdened with enormous liabilities. Uniroyal Inc. "owes" $450 million to its fund; Western Union, which last year paid the equivalent of $2 per share to meet its fund obligations, would have to pay 44% of company assets-$365 million-to fund its pension plan fully. - Set new standards for the administration...