Word: road
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That Georges is still on the road at all is something of a surprise. He was the campaign manager for De Gaulle's re-election last December, in which De Gaulle was forced into a humiliating runoff, and even then managed only 55% of the vote against Socialist François Mitterrand. Afterward, De Gaulle brought back into his Cabinet his first Premier, Michel Debré, a hint to some that Pompidou was on the way down. Not so. As Finance Minister, Debre has had to take orders from Pompidou-and take the blame for the government...
Egypt has so many civil servants that U.S. consultants have recommended firing 60% of them in order to relieve the bureaucratic jam. Egypt's poorly maintained air, rail and road transport systems are in a sorry state. Such basics as rice, matches and meat are scarce. The cotton crop, afflicted by a bollworm plague this year, is in hock to Soviet-bloc countries to pay for the delivery of factories, which the Egyptians manage inefficiently. In fact, there is only one thing that really works in Egypt-the Suez Canal. Because its foreign-exchange earnings are vital, the canal...
MORE: Yes. What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil...
Guns, Revolvers & Clubs. Even after the Penn murder, a group of Athens rowdies traveled to nearby Taliaferro County, where they beat and shot at a one-legged Negro farmer, after halting his car on a country road. Taliaferro Sheriff Milton Moore identified Sims and Myers as two of the whites, and the jury was shown weapons seized from their cars: six sawed-off shotguns, four .38-cal. revolvers, a .22-cal. rifle, a length of heavy chain, and several wooden clubs bearing carved swastikas or the letters...
Well, not entirely, Leo. The dome may be an elaborate Bronx cheer for visitors, and it is true the Astros do considerably better at home (25 wins in 40 games v. 14 of 35 on the road this year). It is truer still that while the Mets set out to draw crowds with familiar-and fading-names, the Astros are starting to cash in on the richest crop of youthful talent in the majors...