Word: sold
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Their path to power was made easier by the previous regime, which had virtually courted a coup by its internal bickering and corruption. Members of Parliament openly sold firearms permits in the streets. Last year a partnership was uncovered between an Indian textile merchant and President Ismail Azhari's twelve-year-old son. For weeks before it was overthrown, the ruling coalition had been in effect a caretaker government, after the powerful Umma Party had healed a split between its traditionalist and progressive wings. The man in line to become Prime Minister had been Sadik Mahdi, 33, a progressive...
...stock," he complains. "Heaven knows how I shall ever get rid of them." Hardest hit of all, perhaps, are the obsequious little men who run Denmark's fleshier kiosks and porno stores-and who are now trying to unload for $8.50 a reel skin flicks that last year sold for $40. "The legalization is killing business," says one, "and you have to be content with what you can sell of decent magazines...
...from ghetto areas "without regard to grades." After tutoring, they could go on to earn degrees in perhaps six or eight years. A key goal: promoting hope and incentive in slum high schools. Arthur Bierman, a physics professor and faculty negotiator, who initially opposed the whole idea, was eventually sold by the student negotiators' sincerity. "Unlike the white radicals," he said, "they are trying to get into the system, not destroy...
...Mancha to win a gold platter -the record industry's reward for selling $1,000,000 worth of disks. RCA Victor's original-cast recording has been the No. 1 album bestseller for seven weeks. Even Atlantic's recording of the London production has sold 60,000 copies...
...show's 26 songs have been released as singles. Last week, the 5th Dimension's double-bill Aquarius/ Let the Sunshine In, which has sold more than a million copies, was No. 3 on Billboard's top 100 records; the Cowsills' Hair is just a notch or so behind. Rising fast on the charts is a new disk of Good Morning Starshine by a singer named Oliver. Another performer who has successfully dipped into the Hair repertory is Nina Simone, whose soulful Ain't Got No/ I Got Life for a time...