Word: shakerer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Though they were formally stripped of their ownership of Cairo's most popular daily, the jazzy Akhbar el Yom (News of the Day), the Amins were allowed to keep control of the paper's twelve-man editorial board and were saddled with only one government representative, Amin Shaker, 37, once Nasser's secretary. But last week the twins found themselves deprived of their property in fact as well as in theory...
...twins' real trouble, however, began when Nasser-despite his reservations about Akhbar-chose Mustafa Amin to accompany him to the U.N. last fall. This deeply offended Government Watchdog Shaker, who had counted on the trip for himself. Setting out to undermine the Amins' popularity with their employees, Shaker told Akhbar's printers that they should no longer submit to the twins' "capitalistic exploitation" and grandiosely promised all staffers a 40% pay raise...
...Slight Misunderstanding. Catching wind of Shaker's maneuvers, the Amins coldly passed word that Akhbar's once fat profits had dwindled to the vanishing point since Nasser's nationalization. There would be no raise, they said. Enraged at this "reneging," a crowd of infuriated typesetters pursued the brothers to their ninth-floor office, besieged them with shouts of "Swindlers! Stealers!" Police drove them away. Soon after, Nasser barred both the Amins and Shaker from the Akhbar building...
George Frederick Handel (1685-1759) is listed just north of the lamb chops. Beethoven is down by the shrimp, Hindemith to the left of the lobster. This unique wedding of calories to composers occurs on the menu of a restaurant in the Cleveland suburb of Shaker Heights, and it is dedicated to an intriguing proposition: if jazz can move into the concert hall, classical music can move into...
Launched a year ago by George H. Baird, former research head of the Shaker Heights schools, the council is a nonprofit corporation of experts, who recommend improvements and charge the schools a modest fee to put ideas to work. "The nation has 603 organizations doing educational research," says Director Baird. "We are the only one set up specifically to make research available in the classroom...