Word: oddness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Divers dream of beating Bill Murphy, yet there are few in the league who have a chance. It makes for an odd situation to win so young and so well. You are expected to win all the time. When you lose it's an upset; when you win it's routine...
...regime has been scrupulous about eliminating any wider influence of tribalism, which has seen such disastrous effects in the dissection of Nigeria. Monsieur Kouassi, the sous-prefet, is not an Atye as are his constituents. Like the hundred-odd other sous-prefets, he has been chosen from a different tribal area of the country so as to prevent him from encouraging localism as a means of building up his personal power...
Rival Groups. Not all of Feisal's worries come from without. He must also contend with his 40-odd half brothers, all princes, who are maneuvering to place their own man on the throne when Feisal, now approaching 65 and suffering from stomach ulcers, retires or dies. So far, the King has managed to play one faction off against the other. To hold their brotherly love, he also distributes monthly allowances ranging from $8,444 for minor princes to $333,000 for the officially designated crown prince, sees that they get "commissions" on every foreign investment in Saudi Arabia...
...family to seek and get a college degree. He grew up in Connecticut's Housatonic valley, where his Lithuanian-born father was a wholesaler of paper, twine and groceries in the small towns of Ansonia and Shelton. It was not a wealthy family, and Sam worked at odd jobs to save money for college-only to discover that his father, in hopes of doubling the investment, had lost it all on a stock-market fling...
Along with 100-odd unknowns, John Kenneth Galbraith and Drew Pearson will publish their first novels; Galbraith's will deal with State Department misadventures in South America, Pearson's, naturally, with a venal U.S. Senator. The new Morris West is about the buildup of the Six Day War in Israel. Following the fashion of pointless pen names, Kingsley Amis calls himself Robert Markham as he takes over the James Bond industry with a suitably unlikely yarn about a convention of Iron Curtain bosses in Greece. Arthur Hailey seems to be starting a literary business too, by following...