Word: classed
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Nasser carried out drastic land reforms, wiping out a parasitic pasha class that had lived off the poverty-stricken peasants for generations. But not long before his death, with per capita income in Egypt still just over $180, he was finally forced to admit that his dreams of building a modern industrial nation had gone aglimmering, that the most he could do for his overpopulated land was to keep it from sliding backward. Nasser had himself mostly to blame. He precipitated a succession of feuds and intrigues with virtually every one of Egypt's Arab neighbors. He was humiliatingly trounced...
...Cairo, the capital of Nasser's own country, that anguish over his death reached its peak. All week long, the lower-class fellahin poured into the city. They came on foot or riding donkeys, aboard bicycles or cars or ancient trucks, clinging precariously to the roofs and sides of trains rolling into the city's Central Station. Like members of some giant caravan at rest, they camped all over Cairo. They watched the comings and goings at the Kubbeh Republican Palace, where dignitaries made solemn calls. They wept at the new Nasr Mosque in the suburb of Manshiet al Bakri...
During the Bolivian campaign, Che roughed out the first draft of a short story whose hero, Pablo, shares important characteristics with the author and illustrates Che's own lifelong obsession with overcoming challenges and seeking social approval. Like Che, who grew up in a middle-class Buenos Aires family and was asthmatic, Pablo is citified, deracinated and afflicted with a physical handicap: poor sight. In the story, entitled Prueba Superada (Passing the Test), Pablo becomes almost overwhelmed by fear, anxiety and doubt after joining a guerrilla column in an unnamed Latin American country. On one terrible march, his shoes...
...Balmoral to compete in a series of equestrian events. She trains so assiduously that friends are speculating that she has her eye on the Olympics. Mrs. Alan Oliver, who has instructed Anne since childhood, notes that "the competition is much tougher now that she is in the open class. But she is a very determined girl." Says Sir Michael Ansell, chairman of the British Show Jumping Association: "She would be most welcome in the international field...
...largest of the troubled Missouri districts is Hazelwood, a working-class suburb of spreading subdivisions and apartment projects. In 15 years, Hazelwood's school enrollment has grown from 1,000 to nearly 25,000. At the same time, tax revenue from industrial and commercial property has fallen from one-fourth of the school budget to 7%. When Hazelwood voters began protesting higher property taxes in earnest last year, it took four elections to pass a school-tax levy. After four more elections in 1970, the voters have still not approved a levy...