Word: oligarchs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...commerce of the Canal Zone, which should have been rightfully ours since 1903." In the slums and backlands, he promised to provide unemployment compensation and some moderate reforms in housing and schools. Repeatedly, he professed independence of the country's powerful ruling elite: "I'm not an oligarch, and not responsible to them." That remains to be seen-Panamanian politics being what they...
...about $400 million) regards Nasser as a Marxist firebrand whose form of "Arab socialism" defiles the Koran; Nasser denounces Saud as a feudal overlord and satyr who keeps his people in bondage. Each morning Radio Cairo broadcasts prayers for the quick demise of the "antisocial, reactionary, squandering, lecherous, oligarch Saud. his family and supporters." In retaliation, Saud, who once financed a $5,000,000 plot to kill Nasser, this year barred delivery of the kiswa, the canopy for the holy Black Stone in Mecca that Egyptian craftsmen had spent almost a year weaving. Making a new 800-yd. embroidered covering...
...Ogled Oligarch. Juliana's top-ranking guests were Queen Elizabeth, one of the world's richest women.* and the Shah of Iran, whose pretty young Empress Farah was the week's most ogled oligarch. The other reigning monarchs on hand: Norway's King Olav V, Luxembourg's Grand Duchess Charlotte, and King Baudouin of the Belgians, who arrived a day late in order to spare Queen Fabiola, who is reportedly pregnant, the full rigors of a royal wingding...
Panama. Anti-U.S. riots a year ago looked like real trouble. Lately the outlook has improved with the inauguration of enlightened Oligarch Roberto Chiari as President, plus a friendship drive by U.S. officials, and a U.S. decision to let the Panamanian flag fly beside the Stars and Stripes on Canal Zone soil...
...Rose's family, the Fitzgeralds, came to Boston more than a century ago, in the great avalanche of immigration that followed the Irish potato famine. The families prospered, and both grandfathers, John F. ("Honey Fitz") Fitzgerald and Patrick J. Kennedy, went into Democratic politics-Pat as a backstage oligarch, Honey Fitz as a frock-coated ham who could weep at will at a stranger's wake, made Sweet Adeline his theme song, served three terms in Congress and was a memorable mayor of Boston...