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Kermit Roosevelt seemed a natural choice to organize the covert operation. He was a historian by training (his doctoral dissertation was on "Psychological Techniques in the English Civil Wars") and during the war he was assigned to the Near East where he served in army intelligence. Later he was recruited by the CIA and in early 1953 was station chief at Beirut in the Lebanon. Roosevelt's Eastern manner was a perfect facade to hide his role as a covert operator--"the last person you would expect to be up to his neck in dirty tricks" as Kim Philby...
Anthony Spalinger, lecturer in Near Eastern Languages at Yale, said yesterday he would prefer to teach a course in Ancient Egyptian culture and civilization...
Washington brows are beginning to furrow at the prospect that the U.S. might wind up with not even enough oil for itself, let alone anyone else. The nation depends on Iran for only about 5% of its petroleum needs, but other countries are nowhere near so lucky. Worldwide, Iran normally supplies about 20% of the total petroleum imports of all the consuming nations. Japan usually relies on Iran for 15% of its needs, and Western Europe generally is heavily dependent on Iranian oil, as is Israel, whose oil needs the U.S. has pledged to fulfill in the event of shortages...
...unobtrusive brick warehouse near San Francisco Bay, 75 or more heavyweight property dealers gather together once a month for what they call market day. For hours they huddle and haggle around a group of video monitors set up on the floor of the burgeoning American Real Estate Exchange (AMREX). Across the screens flash capsule descriptions of big-ticket real estate offerings (minimum asking price: $250,000) whose total value on a given day may reach more than a billion dollars. Some of the items on the block at last month's market day an interest in an $80 million...
Even before publication, this journal had assumed a near legendary character. John Janovy Jr., a University of Nebraska parasitologist, was a literary unknown. His manuscript, which deals with such unprepossessing subjects as snails and the parasites that reside in their innards, arrived at the office unsolicited. Usually, such "over-the-transom" offerings are ignored. But something persuaded an editor to take a quick look at this one "just in case." The decision was the literary equivalent of finding a diamond in a stream...