Word: stripping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...waxing moon silvered the green hillside fields and sand dunes that make up the Gaza strip - the 6-mile by 30-mile sliver of Palestine crowded with 200,000 Arab refugees which Egypt rules under the armistice. Captain Mahmoud Ahmed Sadek, commander of a 35-man garrison guarding the ancient city of Gaza, had put his chair under a tree beside the trenches along the road. At the outpost up the hill toward the Israeli border, guards heard voices calling out in Arabic...
...Arab refugees in the Gaza strip erupted in fury. In Gaza, rioters cursed the U.S., the U.N. and their Egyptian rulers, who keep them from going back home to Palestine. They stoned U.N. headquarters, burned U.N. vehicles, pulled down a U.N. flag. Crowds charged the U.N. relief-agency supply depots outside Khan Yunis, set fire to storehouses holding enough food and clothing to supply 50,000 refugees for one month. Said the Egyptian governor sadly: "These people were fed for six years by the United Nations, doing no work themselves. They got fed up with their lives...
Many a managing editor worries more about his comic strips than his front page. Last week Philadelphia Bulletin Managing Editor Walter Lister gave the editors more to worry about. Said he: "Comics, once regarded as a specific for all circulation ills, are now the sick chicks of the newspaper business." The measure of a strip has long been 50% readership for a good comic, up to 80% for the best., e.g., Dick Tracy, Li'l Abner. But a recent survey in one major U.S. city showed that of 40 strips published, only 13 have 50% readership...
...reason, says Lister, is television, which has lured readers away from the newspapers' back pages. For example, in Dothan, Ala., which has no television reception, comic-strip readership is 68%; in Anniston, Ala., which can tune in on six TV stations, readership is down...
...steadily modernizing their military forces and war industries. Already they are spending more for military purposes alone than the Israelis do for all governmental expenses. As the Arabs grow stronger, the temptation to seek another military showdown with Israel may become irresistible. And the densely-populated Israeli coastal strip, between the Mediterranean and the Jordan border, has an average width of less than twenty miles...