Word: standardize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Latecomer. On the one side is the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana, a Midwestern giant which has belatedly joined the rush for overseas reserves and is ready to pay to get in on the comparatively few good areas still unallocated in the Middle East. For an offshore Iranian concession earlier this year, Indiana Standard paid a $25 million cash bonus, promised to spend $82 million in twelve years developing the area, and by accepting the state oil agency as equal operating partner entitled to half of future profits, in effect gave the Iranians a 75-25 share of total profits...
They are more concerned by the deal being discussed by Indiana Standard with Saudi Arabia. At the bargaining table sits swart, smiling Sheik Abdullah Tariki, 39, the Arab oil expert whom Americans most respect and fear. Head of the Saudi office of Petroleum and Mineral Affairs, Tariki is an oil engineer with a master's degree from the University of Texas, is divorced from his American wife. His dedicated Arab nationalism is reportedly deepened by painful memories of having been confused with Mexicans in Texas. In the land of sheiks with Cadillacs and concubines, he is regarded as personally...
...many a secondary school, for example, we heard that the boys would study Saturday night rather than spend the evening socializing. UCI students told of night-long cram sessions extending for several days, before they took their equivalent of the College Boards. And these sessions are standard procedure prior to any UCI exam. Failing a course may mean expulsion if a re-exam is not quickly passed...
...straight and hard was the Supreme Court line that segregationists cried (incorrectly) in outrage that it had decided questions that were not before it. But in moving beyond the specifics of the Little Rock case to set the legal standard for the "massive resistance" round of the desegregation battle, the Supreme Court was clearly moving strongly to forestall the sort of trouble that comes with doubt and confusion...
...membership will vote formally on whether or not to support Saltonstall, after they have heard the candidate expound his views on the major current political issues. Saltonstall is carrying the Democratic standard in an effort to unseat Representative Lawrence Curtis, the Republican incumbent in the 10th District, which includes Brookline and adjacent areas...