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After a remarkable reign, Faisal died at a time when his prestige throughout the Arab world was at a peak. In the past, many Arab radicals had savagely attacked him as a reactionary, tyrannical ruler of a feudal desert kingdom. But all that changed after Faisal dramatically imposed the oil embargo in October 1973. The Cairo daily al Gumhouriya, once a vehicle for anti-Faisal propaganda campaigns, observed last week: "The Arab nation can never forget his heroic stand during the October war, or that he launched the oil battle in support of the fighters in Sinai and the Golan...
Muhammad's recent respectability came not from the creed of his "Black Muslims," as they are known to outsiders, but from his "do for self philosophy, which generated black enterprise. As much captain of industry as Messenger of Allah, Muhammad was the supreme ruler not only over 76 temples and some 50,000 to 100,000 disciples, but also over some 15,000 acres of farmland and a complex of small businesses that range from pin-neat restaurants to stores to a 500,000-circulation newspaper. Some estimate the worth of the Nation of Islam's business empire...
Massive Aid. Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, Iran's 55-year-old ruler, has a clear idea of the role that Pan Am will play in his country's development. Since 1964, Pan Am has been providing training and technical assistance to the Iranian national carrier, Iran Air. Now, with the use of Pan Am's terminals and expertise in maintenance and promotion, the Shah intends to turn Iran Air into a major international airline, carrying tourists and businessmen from all over the world to Tehran, where $5 billion in new construction and renovation is under...
...part profile of the magazine that sent its editors and friends off muttering about hatchet jobs and "parajournalism." Wolfe's article ran in New York magazine, then the Sunday supplement of The New York Herald-Tribune. His first installment was headlined "Tiny Mummies! The True Story of The Ruler of 43rd Street's Land of The Walking Dead!" It was a great piece, nasty and accurate. "The Ruler of 43rd Street" was William Shawn. The New Yorker's editor, whom Wolfe called "the museum curator, the mummifier, the preserver-in-amber, the smiling embalmer" of the magazine. Wolfe later explained...
...school." The survey showed that more than 1 million children were suspended from school last year-blacks at a rate twice as high as whites. In Macon, Ga., a 16-year-old black student was expelled for three months because he could not pay $5 to replace the ruler he had accidentally broken in shop...