Word: vendors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After two months of fighting, irregulars of the Moroccan Liberation Army, under the leadership of a squat ex-Marrakech street vendor named Ben Hamou, have driven the Spanish out of most of their Atlantic Coast enclave of Ifni. Ifni is not much but rocky rubble and scrub, but its single city, Sidi Ifni (pop. 10,000), has been used by the Spanish as the seat of the governor of all its desert provinces-Ifni, Rio de Oro, Spanish Sahara, as well as the part of southern Morocco that they have continued to rule on the ground that King Mohammed...
Though his men were forced to ferret out news crumbs from such peccable sources as a blind coffee vendor in the City Hall lobby, Journal Editor Gene ("Lucky") Farrell refused to knuckle under. Said he: "They can't live without us." Sending as many as five legmen at a time to prowl City Hall, and eking out their reports with wire-service coverage, Editor Farrell explored in acid detail such practices by inexperienced officials as heavy overpayment for a batch of air conditioners and the "economy" of firing 17 city attorneys and replacing them with 19 at the cost...
...program, was again buying Egyptian cotton, had released $3,000,000 of Egypt's frozen funds, had agreed to a special shipment of Salk polio vaccine-was, in short, about to go all out for Nasser. "It's a great victory for Gamal," said a Cairo news vendor...
...morning in 1918 he turned his wide back on the moderns. "I was just coming out of a cubist show," he said later, "when a fruit vendor passed in front of me in the sunshine, pushing a little wagon full of peaches. The sight was so much more beautiful than all those dry, thin abstractions inside the gallery. It made me want to paint the richness we can see and feel." He went to Italy, where the Renaissance had spread its richness across acres of church and palace walls. Inspired by Giotto, Uccello and Andrea del Castagno, he resolved...
Jordan's all-night curfew was lifted last week for a macabre purpose-to permit citizens to witness and draw the moral from the hanging of three Jordanian National Guardsmen and a street vendor...