Word: lebanon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Crimson "A" team consisting of Jim Sise, Bob Divermore, Fred Noyes, and Captain Jon Chaffee completed the 27-mile course in a total time of three hours, two minutes and 45 seconds. The Lebanon Outing Club posted the winning time of two hours and 42 minutes...
...other borrowings. In strife-torn Yemen and coup-prone Syria, Russian aid has been largely dissipated in a sea of domestic troubles, but Syria has obliged by going markedly Socialist (see following story'). Iraq used Soviet weapons to dispose of Moscow's man Kassem. Pro-Western Lebanon, and Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, whose oil revenues make it easy to turn down aid, have all refused to accept the merest Red cent...
...been opened and all hard currency found there replaced by Syrian pounds. But Syrian businessmen are every bit as canny as their socialist rulers. They had long feared the worst, and since March 1963 an estimated $1 billion has been smuggled out of the country to safety in Lebanon and Switzerland. With last week's repressive action, the businessmen may soon be in flight after their money, causing a "brain drain" that Syria's ardent but inept socialists can ill afford...
...this Cinerama travelogue, but there are plenty of languid interludes too. The film's ports of call are those of The Flying Clipper, a barkentine of the Swedish Merchant Marine manned by 20 student cadets on a Mediterranean cruise out of Goteborg. Climbing the pyramids, throwing snowballs in Lebanon or striding through the courtyards of Hagia Sophia, the boys appear to consider shore leave a time for exercise. The shallow narration, sung and sniggered through by Burl Ives, steers a hazardous course from banality ("And now we say farewell to the land of the Sun God") to banality ("Cleopatra...
...discussion of U.S. trade which bolsters the economics of other countries. He asked if the Chase Manhattan's large investments in South Africa do not serve that purpose in "a racist country." Rockefeller answered that the bank maintains three branches in South Africa, as they do in Nigeria, Liberia, Lebanon and elsewhere...