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Magic Money. Gulbenkian was an Armenian, but he did not rise from rugs to riches. His father. Sarkis. was a prosperous kerosene importer in suburban Constantinople. Calouste adopted an old Arab proverb as his first business maxim while palm-priming the sultan's retinue with baksheesh: "The hand you dare not bite, kiss it." Priming himself with a civil engineering degree at London's King's College, Calouste visited the Baku oilfields in 1888, and in his 20th year wrote an authoritative book on the Baku petroleum industry. It was the overture to decades of what Gulbenkian...
...know how they solved that?" said Mrs. Rudolph. "They opened every interview with an old Tamil proverb that goes, 'If you want to know if the rice is done, take out one spoonful and taste it.' There you have the theory of random sampling in a nutshell...
Hundreds of U.S. and European employees of the oil companies were herded protectively into company compounds, but it was hard to say what they were being protected from. "Mucha música pero poca ópera," said a grizzled engineer, quoting the old Nicaraguan proverb: Lots of noise but little action. Although most of the $125 million worth of oil installations had been prudently shut down several days before the invasion, one U.S. contracting company, disregarding the war, kept right at work on a road and pipeline linking the oilfields with the seacoast. Caltex announced that, with government permission...
...West would call him crazy, said Nikita. His answer was to quote a Russian proverb: "The dog barks and the wind carries the sound away." Barked Nikita: "This program is stronger than the H-bomb. If we catch up with the U.S., we will have hit the pillars of capitalism with the most powerful torpedo...
Furthermore, Good Will Ambassador Saund wove many a pungent political thread into his tapestry. Recalling an old Punjabi proverb, "Torn clothes should be stitched in time," he declared it is "inconceivable that two great democracies of the world-India and America-cannot understand each other while their objective is the same." The U.S. attitude on India's troubles with Pakistan, said Saund firmly, arises out of a realization of Russia's domination in Eastern Europe: "Aid to Pakistan was only part of an overall military strategy-against international Communism-given after carefully weighing all the facts of life...