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Abdul Rahman's campaigning was aided by Malaya's flourishing economy. The federation produces almost a third of the world's natural rubber and tin; its per capita income ($350) is the highest in Asia, and it boasts one telephone for every 100 persons (U.S. ratio: one for every 2½). With the ten-year-old Communist insurrection spluttering into oblivion in the northern jungles and with the nation's rice crop the largest in its history, voters swarmed to the polls last week on foot, and by car, boat, pedicab and elephant. The result...
Without a word, his three brothers dived into the roiling fray, now almost at the shelf's edge, and clutched the shark's body, fins and tail. Panic-stricken, the shark lunged to escape-but in the wrong direction, toward the shelf-and an incoming swell lofted the four boys and the fish in a thrashing mass into the shallows' foot-deep waters. Grabbing rocks, the brothers clubbed the shark to death. Ten minutes later, alarmed fishermen racing to the scene found the four small boys, exhausted but proud, resting beside their unorthodox catch: the still twitching...
Batista itched to get out of the Dominican Republic almost from the day he hit there last January. A subdued and indifferent man desiring only to enjoy the $40 million plus that he stole from Cuba, Batista instead found himself sucked into anti-Castro plots by Dominican Dictator Rafael Trujillo. A Cuban general named Jose Eleuterio Pedraza (who urged Batista to stay in Cuba and fight instead of fleeing) became Trujillo's favorite, put the bite on Batista for arms money. When Batista dragged his feet, he came in for scathing attacks in Trujillo's press (BATISTA SHOULD...
...Chance No. 1 strike is no accident, but the almost inevitable climax to one of the greatest oil rushes in history. Besides Western Minerals, companies like California Standard, Amerada, Shell, Texaco and Midland have grabbed up 130 million acres in the area to stake millions on electronically corroborated hunches that underneath the permafrost lies one of the world's greatest oil pools. The rush has even pushed into the remote Arctic Archipelago, where at least ten companies have asked for exploration permits. Companies with household names such as Richfield are planning to explore places with exotic names such...
...collided with a motorcycle on a winding road overlooking the Adriatic Sea. To her astonishment, recalled Gypsy, deadpan, the rider and his passenger high-tailed it for the woods, abandoning their machine. Later Gypsy asked a Yugoslav official why the wild ones had acted so wildly. His explanation (sounding almost as if it had been composed by Columnist Leonard Lyons): "It is well known that there are only two Rolls-Royces in the whole of Yugoslavia, and both belong to Marshal...