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...world map the Territory of the Afars and Issas resembles a wart on the Horn of Africa. In reality, it is not much more attractive. Most of its 9,000 square miles (roughly the size of New Hampshire) is desert, a desolate mixture of searing sand, thorny scrub and boulder-strewn hills. Its estimated population of 200,000 is split between two unharmonious tribes, the nomadic Afars and the more industrious Issas, and about 90% of the inhabitants are illiterate. Djibouti, the territory's capital and only city of any size, has some of Africa's worst slums...
...obvious that "the scrubwoman scandal", brought to light in the Boston press yesterday, was the result, somewhere, of inexcusable errors of judgement on the part of University officials. Despite the fact that the comptroller's office, with the intelligence of an ostrich hiding its head in the sand, refused to release to the public the truth of the case, the actual facts, uncovered in a way most likely to antagonize a not-too-friendly press, reveal Harvard's heart to be not wholly as black as it was originally painted...
Except for occasional maneuvering armies, the only people who ever lingered on the scrub-and cactus-sprinkled sand dunes of northeastern Sinai were Bedouin tribesmen. That will soon change. Within the next two months, Israeli surveyors-to be followed by bulldozers and construction workers-will begin charting the site for a new city in a 40-sq.-mi. strip of coastal land below the Gaza border town of Rafah in a corner of the Israeli-occupied Sinai Peninsula. By the end of 1974, a settlement large enough to support 350 families will have been built...
...Rafah," says an Arab lawyer in Beirut who specializes in international law, "the Israelis will be building on sand, legally speaking as well as literally. But that has never deterred them in the past." Indeed not, judging by one of Zionism's favorite epics. In 1909 a band of Jewish families followed Meir Dizengoff out of Jaffa to a deserted stretch of dunes; they listened in hope and disbelief as Dizengoff prophesied that a Jewish community of 25,000 would rise on the sand where they stood...
...began a daily regimen of isometric exercises that turned him into a vaudeville strongman. With a 13-week bodybuilding course to sell. Atlas in 1928 was joined by Adman Charles Roman, who dubbed the system "Dynamic Tension" and created the cartoon of a hollow-chested, preAtlas adolescent having sand kicked in his face by a bully. Like his advertising, Atlas' course remained essentially unchanged for half a century and was bought by more than 6,000,000 aspiring he-men around the world...