Word: riches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Thant exaggerates when he says not a single American dollar has been spent on military assistance to Burma. In 1958, under a subtly termed 40-year, 3.5% loan, Washington agreed to sell Burma $8.8 million worth of equipment, ranging from Jeeps to patrol boats. Burma is potentially so rich a land that Ne Win has managed to increase foreign-exchange reserves from $170 million in 1962 to $240 million last year, largely because Burma is the world's largest exporter of rice...
Frankfurter's "judicial restraint" seemed completely antithetical to his personal activism. Born in Vienna, the scion of a long line of rabbis, he came to New York at the age of twelve, his English so poor that he decided a man named "laundry" must be very rich to own so many stores. In 1902, after graduating from C.C.N.Y., he moved on to Harvard Law School. Inevitably, he became editor of the Law Review and wound up No. 1 in his class. By 1917, already on the law school faculty, he was spending most of his time as assistant...
...drinking man's diet will work in some cases, but not for many of the reasons given by its advocates. A bon vivant executive who is ordered to take off 20 or 30 Ibs. is made instantly miserable and tense by being denied most of his drinks and rich meats. Told that he can go on drinking, he stays relaxed, which reduces the temptation to nibble between meals. Also, despite a popular misconception, two or more cocktails actually depress the appetite. The drinking man feels satisfied after a filet mignon, and the little bit of fat that he gets...
...founder and former president (1923-36) of Shell Union Oil Co., U.S. branch of the vast Royal Dutch/ Shell complex, a Dutch nobleman's son who in 1911 was sent across the Atlantic to investigate the possibilities for a foreign company in a land already rich in oil, tapped enough Stateside wells and strung enough competitive gas stations across the continent to make Shell a giant of U.S. industry (it now ranks seventh in oil, 15th among all U.S. companies); of lung cancer; in Santa Barbara, Calif...
...sort of music box in which tiny lords and ladies, shepherds and shepherdesses perform an elaborate, unchanging dance. Portuguese Author Monteiro has constructed his odd novella of life in modern Lisbon like one of those antique music boxes. The effect is quietly damning. The figures are a rich man, Gonçalo, his empty-headed wife, their idealistic young son, Gonçalo's stupid mistress Alexandra, and António, an old schoolmate fallen on hard times. As the key is wound and the book begins to tick, Gonçalo meets António. Then he sees...