Word: orientals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Egypt--ah, the stuff of which murder victims are made--is killed in her stateroom while everyone else's attention is on the groom, who has been shot in the leg by the drunk, half-crazed woman he jilted to marry the heiress. Also on board this floating Orient Express is the legendary Belgian detective Hercule Poirot (Peter Ustinov), who hears all, sees all, and eats all, at least to judge by his bulk. Add one American lawyer trying to cover up the fact that he has been embezzling the heiress's money, and balance with one English lawyer keeping...
...Overseers, who were elected by members of the Associated Harvard Alumni to six-year terms, are: Albert V. Casey '43, president of American Airlines; Thomas Jefferson Coolidge, Jr. '54, chairman of Back-Bay-Orient Enterprises and a prominent figure in American-Korean trade relations; Thornton F. Bradshaw '40, president of Atlantic Richfield, one of the nation's largest oil companies; Rilbert D. Storey '58, a partner in the Ohio law firm of Burke, Haber and Berick; and Frank Stanton, former president of the Columbia Broadcasting System...
...Well,...the Oriental doesn't put the same high price on life as does a Westerner. Life is plentiful, life is cheap in the Orient. And as the philosophy of the Orient expresses it, life is not important...
...Arnold Arboretum had not sent an expedition to the Orient since 1918 although it had previously been a leader in botanical explorations in temperate Asia...
...first, he didn't have to travel far for material--Cambridge is the center for so many Neo-Oriental movements that it has been called "Benares-on-the-Charles." Interest in the Orient has not sprung up overnight in this country like some magical circle of mushrooms. A fascination with the faraway and the unfamiliar is especially pronounced among Americans whose ancestors must have had a similar burning inquisitiveness (as well as economic need) to leave the Old World for the New. And the China trade, even more than the old legends of Marco Polo or the march...