Word: winterers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...even though his grandfather was King, Hussein was far from rich. His family lived in a small, unheated villa in Amman, had to make do on a government stipend of $3,000 a year. The house got so cold one winter, he recalls, that his little sister died of pneumonia. The money once ran so low that his mother had to sell his bicycle in order to pay the bills. His fortunes have since improved. In addition to the three royal residences assigned him, he now has a villa at Aqaba. His real home, however, is a modest converted farmhouse...
When it comes to risky occupations these days, the diplomat from Red China takes second place to no one. Last winter 30 embassy aides in Moscow were pummeled by irate Russians while they tried to protect a Chinese propaganda display. In April, Indonesian troops had to be called out to disperse a mob that was preparing to burn down China's Djakarta embassy. Ten Chinese aides ousted from India two weeks ago filed into their plane wearing conspicuous bandages on their heads. Expelled in reprisal for Chinese violence against two Indian diplomats, the Chinese said they had been beaten...
Dark Spots. Behind the words of both Ackley and Martin lay the fact that the U.S. economy is pulling out of the winter downturn which is being called, in current vogue, the "mini-recession." Though the economy, as Martin noted, "is beginning to show signs of moving ahead again," many dark spots remain. Despite massive stimulation to business through an easing of credit and a sharp rise in federal spending, industrial production has slipped four months out of the past five on the Federal Reserve Board index; in May, it fell 2% below its December peak. The nation...
They do, of course, in a concrete sense. Harvard is here, population changed but not very much diminished, business as usual in the Union and Lamont, "winter" students occupying their Eliot House suites, plays on the Loeb mainstage, presses running at the CRIMSON. But they see Harvard as one who stops at Churchill Downs in December and then says he has seen the Kentucky Derby...
...worms. There's just no reason to get mixed up in it." Even taken at face value, that the Summer School simply finds it easier to say "no parietals" or "in by 1," the approach is not that of the Harvard that people go to in the winter...