Word: persianism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...even looks somewhat like Gandhi, except for a grey beard and frowsy dark hair. He has the same emaciated body, wears the same sort of bifocal glasses, speaks in the same calm, soft voice, with kindly humor. One of the most learned men in India, he has studied Sanskrit, Persian, Urdu, Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Bengali, Telugu, Kanarese, Malayalam and English, and this array of languages serves him well on his travels through polyglot India. It is not for his learning, however, that India's millions have given their hearts to Vinoba Bhave. They have done that because he, like...
Ninety miles inland from the Persian Gulf, the oasis of Buraimi has slumbered for centuries. Its 8,000 inhabitants subsist on dates, camel meat and milk, and live in eight, mud-walled villages scorched by the gusts of the shamal. No one knows for certain to whom Buraimi belongs. Northward lies Trucial Oman, "protected" by the British; westward lies Saudi Arabia; all around is uncharted waste, so desolate that even the Arabs call it Rub al Khali, the Empty Quarter...
...projects have made him something of a legend in the industry. It was Rieber who landed the famous Barco concession in Colombia for the Texas Co.. built a mile-high pipeline across the Andes, wangled a half-interest for Texaco in the rich Bahrein fields on the Persian Gulf. After he resigned as Texaco chairman in 1940. he carved a new career for himself as boss of Barber Oil Corp...
...Persian Gulf, by the shore of the Neutral Zone of Kuwait, lies a battered old World War II LST, a displaced veteran of the invasion of Leyte. For three years it has served as a forward outpost of one of the oil industry's most famous field bosses, James MacPherson, 62, as he hunted for oil ashore. At a cost of $30 million, MacPherson's long-futile quest became the most expensive in Middle East history. After five dry holes, oilmen all over the Middle East joked: "Four more holes will give Mac a nine-hole golf course...
Opportunity Illuminated. Reinhold took his time. At Camp Grant, near Rockford, Ill., he stuffed himself with the astounding food (both cake and grapes at one meal), enrolled for correspondence courses in Russian and Persian, ingratiated himself with his captors, and peddled his medals and handmade souvenirs to accumulate a store of U.S. currency. He dyed a pair of khaki pants blue, and hid them...