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...those Arabs who left Israel left of their own volition during the 1948 War of Independence. They hoped to return very quickly to share in the booty of a defeated Israel. It seems they made a mistake in judgment. Now, having lost the gamble, they still insist on a payoff...
...kind of low, sharply angled passing shot that had long ago earned him the nickname of the Little Master. Final score: 2-6, 6-4, 7-6, 6-3. A perennial runner-up in recent years, Rosewall accepted the $20,000 winner's check, his biggest payoff ever, with a lengthy speech that he said he had been preparing "during those long times between wins...
Last week Rogers' gamble returned at least a preliminary payoff. In a Cairo speech and in a private note to Washington, Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser responded to the U.S. proposals. Washington had deliberately urged the Israelis to withhold their reply in order to give Nasser, fresh from 19 days of talks with his Soviet patrons in Moscow, time to react to Rogers' offer. To the delight of U.S. officials, Nasser's speech was relatively devoid of anti-American polemics and cautiously favorable. His note was even more accommodating, so much so that it placed...
...reason for the payoff is the managing directors' decision seven years ago that the most economical tankers would be 210,000-tonners. They were big enough to be highly efficient, but small enough to operate in ports then being planned. Shell ordered 22 of the behemoths in the mid-1960s, when prices were 40% lower than now. Shell transports oil for significantly less than it would have to pay with smaller tankers. It is also one of the few oil majors with a fleet big enough to compensate for the closing of the Suez Canal...
...scientific payoff from all this effort could be spectacular. The first moon mission yielded a rock more than 4.5 billion years old, a billion years older than any earth specimen. On its return from man's first expedition to the lunar highlands, Apollo 13 may bring back rocks nearly 5 billion years old, going back to the very beginnings of the solar system. Such trophies would more than convince scientists that the astronauts did not lightly pick the Apollo 13 mission motto: Ex Luna, Scientia -From the Moon, Knowledge...