Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Meanwhile, Narain, a maverick, quick-tempered member of the upper house who has been in jail for some protest or other at least once a year since 1947, and who has frequently had to be bodily carried out of legislative sessions for refusing to obey the speaker's rules of order, gloated over the turmoil he had wrought. "The court has done its duty," he said. "Now there must be demonstrations all over the country forcing the Prime Minister to resign...
...favorite place, the Plaza hotel's Palm Court, when he saw Margaux, who was in town for a skiing promotion gig. Their eyes locked. They have been in love ever since, and when Margaux arrived in New York last fall, they pooled their resources, rented a grungy Upper East Side pad and settled down to construct the Big Deal. Frequent reassuring trips to the Palm Court were necessary. "If things began to cave in or if we were confused, we would rush over there, sit at a table, and suddenly things became clearer," says Errol. Margaux says, "Errol...
...Riesman decides that the damage done to the Harvard of an earlier era will be permanent, the central problems of his analysis remain. First, at an institution which has always been extra kind to the sons of its alumni, which for its entire history protected male--and middle and upper class--prerogatives in the admissions process, and which accedes to senior faculty in the History Department who claim there is only one black American historian in the entire country qualified (though conveniently unwilling) to teach here, it is not so plain that there has been a sincere commitment to "democratic...
Fall Guy. Still, Sadat's principal power base is not the army but Egypt's affluent landowners and its urban upper-middle class; though those groups total fewer than 2 million people, or one-twentieth of the population, they dominate the country. When Sadat was Vice President, Nasser mocked him as "old Goha," after a legendary fall guy in Egyptian folk humor. He insisted that "Sadat's greatest ambition is to own a big automobile and have the government pay for the gasoline." But on his own, old Goha turned out to be perhaps a shrewder politician...
...only a small coterie of close friends and advisers. The closest is Sayed Marei, 60, a wealthy landowner whose son is married to Sadat's daughter Noha. At Sadat's insistence, Marei was named head of the People's Assembly, despite vigorous protests against his staunch upper-class conservatism. Also close to Sadat is Premier Mamduh Salem, 57, a former policeman who endeared himself to the President in 1971 by arresting the then Vice President Ali Sabry, a Communist sympathizer, on charges of plotting to overthrow the President. Since then, Sadat has had a record...