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...Europe squirming in the economic pinch of the blocked canal. But the victor of the November crisis has not fared well under the wasting pressures of its aftermath. The blocked canal has cost Egypt heavily in revenues and business dependent on its traffic; Port Said is an economic wasteland and its citizens in an ugly mood. Egypt's profitable tourist trade has dried up. Nasser's expulsion of British, French and Jewish residents (an estimated total of 30,000 people) and the "Egyptianization" of foreign banks and agencies has resulted in a devastating dislocation of the economy. Nasser...
Wrapped around the flattened underside of the earth is a massive, high-domed shield of rock and ice. This is the Antarctic Continent, a frozen and almost lifeless wasteland studded with glistening mountains that stand like icy tombstones over a cosmos-sized graveyard. In its skies, angry clouds drift over seas of corrugated sastrugi and sparkling glacial spillways. To the explorer this continent of 5,000,000 square miles-three-fourths as big as the U.S. and Canada combined-is a geologic throwback to the Ice Age. It is the world's most hostile environment of earth...
Hopper yearned simply to "paint sunlight on the side of a house." But his oils lacked the gusto then in fashion. They showed an almost obsessive fear of the flourish. Xo one wanted them. For a whole decade he practically ceased 'painting them. His empty easel was wasteland, and within himself lay wilderness. His friends heard nothing from him; apparently he had gone under...
Many a wise old political head was wagged in pity last September when Vice President Richard Nixon put Texas on his campaign itinerary. All the signs of local politics indicated that Texas would be a Republican wasteland-and Republican campaigning for Texas' 24 electoral votes a waste of precious time. At first the old heads seemed right; Nixon spoke m Houston's Music Hall to a crowd that filled fewer than two-thirds of the 4,000 seats. But the Vice President listened as he talked, looked as he was looked at, and recommended that the G.O.P. make...
...view of Governor Langlie's stand on public power, a more appropriate background would include an expanse of sagebrush wasteland with kerosene lamps rampant...