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...foremost playground and financial center in the Eastern Mediterranean, Beirut is choked with well-heeled pashas, politicians and oil sheiks from Iraq, Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait-most of them distrustful of cash and preferring concrete investment. In recent years the Arab millionaires have sunk $83 million into Beirut apartment houses. The Kuwaiti sheik who tools past his ten-story property in an air-conditioned Lincoln is delighted that he has converted his money into something solid-even though it may be half empty. "Why should I lower my rents and let the poor people in?" asked one pasha...
...must congratulate you on your excellent coverage of the current crop of children's books ["The Condemned Playground," Dec. 15]. However, it was the Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe who was responsible for the "one-woman population explosion," and not Old Mother Hubbard, whose crimes would more appropriately be brought before the Anti-Cruelty Society...
...Kennedy Library will be constructed on University grounds, probably along the Charles River. Sites on the present MTA yards and near the Corporal Burns Playground in the Houghton area east of Dunster House have been shown to the President by a special committee from the University and the White House...
Opposing a possible sale of the city's Corporal Burns playground to the University, he assailed the "gigantic land grab in Cambridge" and proposed a bill for the state legislature that would prevent Harvard from "grabbing" any more taxable land...
...Memorial Drive below Dunster House, the playground had been the object of talks between City and University officials last year. If the city had sold the playground, it probably would have received in return some University land further down the River...