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Virtually no foreign exchange has been earned in two months, since the ports of Chittagong and Chalna are almost closed by mines and sunken ships. Food and other shipments into the interior are slow because of hundreds of blown railroad and highway bridges and insufficient river transport...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BANGLADESH: Bleak Future | 2/28/1972 | See Source »

...three, Dan Gordon had trouble getting in and out of the sunken Hemenway Courts, but MIT's Phil Nanavati had much more difficulty on the court and lost. 15-9, 15-7, 15-9. Gordon's serve game Nanavati a great deal of trouble, and the Engineer laughed throughout the match. "Just great." Nanavati said to Gordon at the end of the third game, and he wasn't talking about the weather...

Author: By Robert W. Gerlach, | Title: Racquetmen Down Inept Engineers To Gain Second Victory of Season | 12/7/1971 | See Source »

...first step, at best, in an overall settlement, for it would leave unresolved the fate of Jerusalem and the West Bank of the Jordan River, both of which were ruled by Hussein before the Six-Day War in 1967. In an interview with TIME Correspondent Gavin Scott in the sunken living room of Al-Hummar palace, Hussein made these points: > Jerusalem. "It is the main issue," said Hussein. The King is particularly worried because Jerusalem is the only occupied territory that Israel has formally annexed and because the Israelis are building vast housing projects for their own citizens. "Immediate action...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Jordan's Hussein: Things Will Work Out | 7/5/1971 | See Source »

...Commencement day, after the handshaking and congratulations, that same chin will have fallen in and begun to take on the connotations of another politician, Richard Nixon-sobering, bedraggled, absorbed in its five o'clock shadow. The sunken eyes will recede a little deeper, but the straight-on gaze that says "Tell me your story" will remain as will the glittering beam of light that comes from some far off edge of the room and has lodged itself in this man's eyes...

Author: By Scott W. Jacobs, | Title: ...It's Derek Bok, The Answer | 6/17/1971 | See Source »

...Jackson fortress wraps itself around a pool; it has walkways and plants growing all around; there is a basketball half court, badminton court, an archery range and, inside, a pool table in a sunken rec room and a den that looks like a cross between a motel lobby and the foyer of a Sunset Boulevard record company. The walls are plastered with platinum records (each signifying $2,000,000 in sales) and various other trophies the boys have picked up. For furniture, there is a bar, a stereo with big speakers and leatherette couches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Jackson Five at Home | 6/14/1971 | See Source »

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