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...piano player and a rounder, a whisky drinker and a pavement pounder. I'll teach you some good bad habits. You'll need 'em." Author Ellison knows all about the mountebanks and charlatans, political and otherwise, who prosper in Harlem, and his examples (especially Ras the Exhorter, who fancies himself as a black Messiah) are richly drawn. The book's final scene, a Harlem riot, has the sweep of an epic nightmare...
...effective next week, was intended to trim U.S. oil company sales 37%, from 13 million tons a year (97.5 million barrels) to 9,000,000. The Arabian American Oil Co., which had poured $350 million into developing its concession in Saudi Arabia and building its big modern refinery at Ras Tanura (see cut), already had been forced to shut down 23% of its production, expected to be running soon at only 50% of capacity...
...adviser to Franklin Roosevelt at Yalta. He had been secretary of the Dumbarton Oaks and San Francisco conferences at which the United Nations ras brought to being. Then he had quit to become president (at $20,000 a year) of the $10 million Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in New York (he said that John Foster Dulles had urged him to take that...
...tons of flour a month, served notice that they would not import food for civilians after May 15. And how would Jerusalem's 100,000 Jews get their fuel oil (which comes by pipeline across Arab lands) or water (which is pumped from .the wells of Ras el Ain in Jewish Palestine through Arab territory)? Who would run and maintain railroads, the postal system, telegraphs and ports, or patrol the borders against cholera-carriers...
...Royalty Ras Imru, Haile Selassie's first cousin and Ethiopia's hardest-fighting chieftain until the Italians captured him in 1936, headed home after nearly seven years' detention in Calabria. With him went his retinue of 16 (including a woman whose neck was tattooed blue...