Word: richness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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BRAZIL'S President Juscelino Ku-bitschek, out to develop his sprawling, potentially rich nation at any price, has snowballed an economic boom just one miraculous jump ahead of his creditors. What are President Kubitschek's chances of staying out in front until the inflationary boom starts paying off? See THE HEMISPHERE, The Bumblebee...
...Yemen, 67, was suffering from arthritis, also reportedly from the effects of chewing too many qat leaves (a common Middle Eastern narcotic), swigging too many flagons of eau de cologne (he likes the stuff), and leaning too heavily on aphrodisiacs. In keeping with Arabian face-keeping, the oil-rich Imam arrived in Rome last month with an entourage of about 90 assorted Yemeni, including several Cabinet ministers, scimitar-bearing guards, three of his Queens, 23 concubines (who, according to the Italian Foreign Office, are not genuine harem types, "just slaves"). The Imam spends his time in Rome's Villa...
...When dealing with people who are clearly rich or poor, in the old fashioned sense of these words, the 'needs' test was simple and efficient," he continued. "Now there aren't many rich and we don't see many poor...
...there was this difference: the miner stood a fair chance of taking his gold out of the hills; the gamblers stand a better chance of leaving it there. Bill Harrah's glossy casinos-two on the shore of Lake Tahoe, one 56 miles away in Reno-are a rich vein only for their owner. The prospectors who play at his tables, like gamblers everywhere, pay dearly for the occasional jack pot, and the round-the-clock entertainment...
...Texas, in Oregon and Nevada and Georgia-wherever land stops and water begins, and even where the water's edge is a day's journey-U.S. families were caught with boat fever. The sport that 20 years ago was confined largely to fishermen and the rich has become a pastime enjoyed by some 40 million U.S. citizens. In just twelve years the number of boats that churn the U.S.'s waterways has more than tripled, from 2,500,000 to nearly 8,000,000. And the boom is still growing. The estimated $2.5 billion that boat...