Word: roughs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although his government is broke, young King Hassan II has managed-with French and U.S. aid-to start a sugar refinery at Sidi Slimane, a dam on the Moulouya River, a terraced agricultural complex in the rough Rif country, and new tourist hotels along the coast. More important, Hassan has pushed his country toward democracy, with free elections and a freewheeling legislature. Is all this really enough? No, suggested the mobs that swept down the labyrinthine alleys of Casablanca with the violence of the harmattan, Morocco's fierce desert wind...
...kind of evangelism that caused the New York Post to describe the founding convention in San Francisco as "the most important human gathering since the Last Supper." South Africa's Jan Smuts, a veteran of the ill-fated League of Nations, was equally hopeful. After scribbling a rough draft of the U.N. Charter's preamble on a cigarette packet, he told reporters: "This time we will pull it off. We have learned our lesson now." But there were many bitter lessons ahead as the U.N. met reality...
Gilbert was raised in a tough section of Brooklyn, but managed to escape being contaminated by the rough-necks. At age 11, he went with his younger brother to Camp Molloy, a Catholic camp on Long Island, where one of the counselors wanted him to sing in the camp show. Gilbert was reluctant, but the counselor advised, "Just look at the light over your head and make believe you're in the shower." He looked up and sang, and the shower was one of loud applause. That day Gilbert discovered he had a fine soprano voice...
...able to apply in roommate groups, but they would express no House choice. Left essentially unchanged would be the intricate formula that restricts each House to a certain number of Group One students, preppies, jocks, and other personality types. The new committee would attempt to create the same rough balance in each House that the Masters now labor...
...This Rough Magic, Stewart 10. The Ordways, Humphrey...