Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With Iraq's government enriched by oil revenues of more than $200,000,000 a year, the ancient city of Baghdad (pop. 750,000) is planning a future almost as glittering as its past. The sun-baked Abode of Peace by the Tigris has a new bridge, new Royal Palace and Parliament buildings, a TV station and its first air-conditioned movie. It has started slum clearance and flood control, and its ancient irrigation system, in ruins since Hu-lagu the Mongol destroyed it in 1258, is being rebuilt. To top off the all-out effort to make...
...grandiose, slow-moving, multi-mused Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts inches closer to completion. On the drawing boards since 1956, the project, which eventually will become a six-building headquarters for the New York Philharmonic, the Metropolitan Opera and other highbrow projects, has had to squirm past hassles with disgruntled tenants and will not be completed before...
...most heavily traded stock on the American Stock Exchange last week belonged to a company that few Wall Streeters had heard of until recently: General Development Corp., whose shares went from twelve to 17? in the past month. General Development, pioneering a new kind of land boom in Florida, is building and selling houses at a price that retired oldsters on social security can afford...
...campaign by any U.S. builder. This year General is spending almost $2,000,000 in advertising. As a result, 300 to 400 letters came into its offices every day last week from as far off as Hong Kong, each with a $10 down payment for a lot. In the past year, the company has sold 34,000 homesites and close to 800 houses at Port Charlotte...
...year-old Scot who did an 18-month correspondent's hitch in India and Pakistan for TIME (and now covers Japan). But it dominates a highly personalized book that makes bitterly clear how far Indian intentions outrun Indian performance, how even the monuments and pastimes of the imperial past are decayed in the ineffectual present. The Taj Mahal is here, naturally by moonlight-but so are the leechlike guides, making the night hideous as they clamorously offer to show visitors around for 10 rupees-or to go quietly away for 5. There is a tiger hunt, but also...