Word: magics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...economic problems. The country has run up a foreign debt of nearly $3 billion, and the gap between exports and imports has widened to a record $500 million for 1965. "We are facing difficulties," Nasser conceded. "We must all work harder and make sacrifices. I have no magic button that I can push to produce the things you want...
Show of Force. Lacking a magic button to push, Nasser has done the next best thing. The new Premier whom he appointed last September to replace left-leaning Ali Sabry has begun a reform of Egypt's stagnant economy, and Nasser has so far given him full support. To increase government revenue, Premier Zakaria Mohieddin has sharply raised Egypt's inadequate personal income tax and has added a "defense tax" on all sales to help defray military costs. He has jacked up tariffs on nonessential imports to save foreign exchange. He has also hiked the cost of luxury...
...pictures are really abstractions," says Christ-Janer, 55, "that, I hope, come through with a magic that makes people see nature in them." He can brush a cool, grainy vision that recalls arctic tundra seen from 25,000 ft. up, or the scorched, forever autumnal desert of the American Southwest. Says he: "The earth, the sky and the sea are my sources of information...
Copenhagen was a magic town. It was said that the King, after the gates were locked at night, slept with the keys under his pillow. And Hans Christian was sure that if one knocked on the castle door, his majesty would open it himself, in slippers and crown and any old robe...
...blues and greens. She even puts some change in the Salvation Army pot as she trundles back from Jordan's or Bonwit's. You may feel peculiarly "out" as you watch her, for holidays are not times for strangers. But she is not to be missed--none of the magic of New York, mind you, or even the plasticity of Los Angeles, but still something quite remarkable in her own way. How long can it last, you ask yourself? How long before Washington Street takes over? But the Maiden Aunt smiles confidently. She's been around a long time...