Word: sand
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Pagodas of Sand. At 63, U Nu is opening yet another round in one of Asia's longest-running contests for power. The moonfaced, celibate Buddhist monk became the Union of Burma's first Premier when the country gained independence from Britain in 1948. He was gentle and compassionate, but he was also a sucker for a motley assortment of stargazers; one legendary day, presumably with appropriate astrological advice, he ordered 60,000 pagodas to be constructed-all of sand. The egregious corruption of his regime angered Burma's small middle class, and when he established Buddhism...
...psychiatric treatment; once, on a golf course, he beat an aide senseless with his clubs during a fit of rage. Of late, however, he has been trying to keep cool in the face of a threat that may or may not be as substantial as U Nu's sand pagodas. His newspapers dismiss U Nu & Co. as "Ali Baba and the 40 thieves," and his ministers, when asked about U Nu, reply...
Cecil the seasick sea serpent swept to a Scituate shore Sunday and successfully stank up the surrounding sand...
...ingenious youth aggravated a mild hernia by lifting 100-lb. sacks of sand prior to his exam. Doctors disagreed on the seriousness of his condition, but agreed that anyone so determined to avoid service would make a bad soldier and excused him for psychological reasons. Another failed color tests until he was awarded a 4-F classification, while a married registrant succeeded in convincing doctors that his wife would go crazy in his absence. The prize for determination goes to a six-footer who managed by careful dieting to keep his weight below the minimum for his full height until...
...Lithuanian immigrant, he started Chicago's Material Service Corp. in 1919 on a borrowed $10,000. By the time he sold the firm to General Dynamics in 1959-and became a key figure on the board-he had built M.S.C. into one of the world's largest sand and gravel companies. After Crown quit General Dynamics in 1966, many of Material Service's top executives departed in frustration at the way the company was being run. Upset, Crown quietly began buying blocks of General Dynamics common stock. By last May, he and friends had accumulated...