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Today, Mother Teresa of Calcutta, 65, is slightly bent from hardship, her man-size hands are gnarled, her Albanian peasant face is seamed. From her solitary, seemingly foolhardy labors have grown two orders of women and men willing to take risks and make sacrifices. Nearly 1,300 Missionaries of Charity-1,132 nuns and 150 brothers-are now scattered throughout 67 countries tending the world's poor: in Yemen and Gaza, in Australia and Peru, in London and in New York City's South Bronx-even, at Pope Paul VI's request, in the shadow...
...tensions mount in Southern Europe, Albanian warplanes drop nuclear bombs on Naples. Tel Aviv is destroyed by a nuclear attack from an unidentified country; Egyptian atomic bombs devastate London and Washington; China, the Soviet Union, the U.S. and Britain are drawn into war. Soon mushroom clouds cover nearly the entire planet...
...their wives. But gad, sir, how to seat them? If the places were dispensed alphabetically, Bachelor King Leka I, 35, would have the honored position at either end of the table, since he is claimant to the throne of Albania and belongs to the house of Zogou. However, the Albanian monarchy was only established in 1928, and among dynasts antiquity...
BUREAU OF INTELLIGENCE AND RESEARCH. Director: Ray S. Cline. Employees: 335. Budget: about $8,000,000. Intelligence arm of the State Department since 1947. Charged with gathering and analyzing information essential to U.S. foreign policy. Staffed by economists and academicians. Prepares studies on subjects as diverse and esoteric as Albanian public health system and the clove industry in Zanzibar. Generally considered a "clean," as opposed to "dirty" or covert operation...
...horseshoe-shaped tunnel that enables welders to work both inside and outside the hull, producing a stronger seam than is attained by conventional methods. In the past, other Communist nations got most of the benefit of Polish expertise: one out of every two Rumanian fishing ships, and every fourth Albanian, fifth Soviet and sixth Chinese merchant ship, is Polish made...