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...attempt to condemn Israel for propping up a system of racial discrimination also loses some of its luster in view of the progress the sponsors have made on human rights in their own countries. Saudi Arabia recently expelled five Europeans and Americans for attempting to hold a Christian service in their home. This is not as astonishing as the reported persistence in Saudi Arabia of Black slavery, an institution legally abolished in the early 1950s...
...found New York City "a difficult place to live." He also sought a raise, after initially cutting his own pay from $80,000 to $55,000 as an austerity measure. Conceded Kinsley: "The thought of not having to deal with the Harper's board added to the luster of the job at the New Republic...
...when he was 30, Winston Churchill had already accomplished more than most men do in a lifetime. He added luster to the family name in the Caribbean as a daredevil correspondent covering the Cuban insurrection. At Omdurman, he rode in the British army's last great cavalry charge during Kitchener's campaign to reconquer the Sudan. He became a national hero by escaping from his Boer captors in South Africa in 1899. The following year he was prepared to greet the new century as a Member of Parliament, a novelist and traveling lecturer. In America, Mark Twain presented...
...keep the buying public bedazzled, Chrysler is developing vehicles for special market segments, known in Detroit as "niche" cars. These are expected to confer some luster on the rest of the car line as well as to reach relatively small but profitable markets where other carmakers are not competing. Later this year Chrysler will introduce the ultimate in elongated K-cars, the roomy five-passenger Chrysler Executive Sedan and a seven-passenger limousine. lacocca has also ordered...
Queen Elizabeth II of Britain and Pope John Paul II are figures on the world stage of such luster that they turn almost any trip into a journalistic superevent. Since her journey to South Africa in 1946, her first visit abroad, Elizabeth has logged about 800,000 miles to far-flung dominions and friendly former colonies, more than the combined journeys of all of England's previous monarchs since the Norman conquest. In only four years, John Paul has flown 150,000 miles, more than the previous record holder, Paul VI, traveled in his entire 15-year pontificate. Both...