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...last harvesters winnowed the wheat by throwing forkfuls in the air as in Old Testament times. As the caravan passed, they chanted in unison: "Welcome, Hussein, welcome, our King." In Nablus, traditional center of opposition to the crown, 4,000 citizens jammed the square to roar: "Long live Hussein." Longest and loudest ovation of the day was at Tulkarm, right on the Israeli border, where the welcomers all but mobbed the King. As the convoy sped off in the dusk, a palace official jubilantly summed up: "The most successful tour His Majesty has ever made...
Status & Change. Governor Bill Quinn was an ambitious philosophy student in St. Louis in the late 19305 when the first signs of Hawaii's big change were beginning to come clear. The Chinese, longest established of the imported laborers, were slowly building up capital. Japanese immigrants were hoarding their slender earnings to get their children educated and on the road to citizenship. A young merchant seaman named Jack Hall jumped ship in Honolulu in 1935 and, forming an alliance with Red-lining Harry Bridges, boss of the West Coast International Longshoreman's and Warehouseman's Union (I.L.W.U...
...week the menthol drive reached its peak of intensity, proclaimed by full-page ads that touted every gimmick that adman can conceive and machine execute. Philip Morris (Marlboro, Parliament) launched Alpine on a national scale, billed it not only as a long, low-tar, lightly mentholated cigarette with "the longest filter yet," but as one of the few cigarettes since Camel to come in a package with a picture on it (of an Alpine mountain). Brown & Williamson, whose "Thinking Man" Viceroys thoughtlessly slumped 20% in the first quarter, clawed back with two new filters: the mentholated Belair, whose pack also...
...need a nice little cup in it''). He gave a captain's cold advice on picking a crew ("Don't have a light-hearted comedian as a member of a serious racing crew"). He even talked about the weather ("Squalls from the northwest blow longest and hardest...
...shaky compromise between rival antiaircraft missiles, the Army's Nike-Hercules and the Air Force Bomarc. The solution satisfied hardly anyone, and the grumbles both from Capitol Hill and the Pentagon reflected an increasingly apparent fact: for Neil Hosler McElroy, sometime president of Procter & Gamble, one of the longest of all Washington honeymoons is ending...