Word: spartanly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Shenyang performers, who are paid the equivalent of $30 a month, lead a rigorous and spartan life, practicing 3½ hours every day and performing four or five times a week. The younger members, who are first apprenticed at seven or eight, must do their exercises in the morning and then study after lunch. For them especially, the current tour has been an eye opener. Chao Chun, 12, the youngest member on the tour and a star of the lion dance, was asked before he left Peking if he knew where Canada was. "Not exactly," he replied...
Zilkha, a divorced father of two teenagers, operates out of a spartan office in an old confectionery factory and holds board meetings in the back seat of his chauffeur-driven Rolls-Royce. Besides Zilkha, the company's only directors are his brother Ezra, chairman of Manhattan's Fidelity International Bank, and Mothercare's personnel and property officer. Zilkha himself has made a fortune on babies. Last July the company went public, and his holdings of Mothercare's stock are now worth $13 million...
Finally, on a U.S. Government-sponsored stay in Haiti he senses Jewishness as an unformed community of wanderers. Trips to Israel begin to focus his Jewish heritage. Small, spartan and disciplined by challenge, Israel for Gold seems like some sort of milk farm of the soul. The words pour out - regret for not being worthy of his past, pride at Israel's victory in the Six-Day War, and a feeling that even "the perfect story" and "the perfect girl" are not enough. Amer ica, in fact, is not enough...
When the elder Hanson took over the company, he foresaw that campers would want to be pampered and gradually switched the product line from spartan travel trailers and portable dwellings mounted on pickup trucks to more luxurious box-shaped, selfpropelled vehicles. Winnebago now crams its 13 models with such gadgets as eye-level ovens, built-in vacuum cleaners, showers, color TVs and sleeping quarters for as many as eight campers...
...Okamoto stood before the three-officer court accused in the killing of 26 people and the wounding of 72 others in a terrorist attack at Tel Aviv's Lod International Airport in which his two accomplices were also killed (TIME, June 12). The circumstances, however -a stern tribunal, spartan courtroom, TV lights, well-frisked audience of international journalists-replayed the surroundings in which Adolf Eichmann stood trial eleven years ago. The major difference: Eichmann, the man in the glass booth,* stood accused of murdering not 26 people...