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...From the Arabian Sea to the Bay of Bengal, from tropical Madras to the freezing Himalayas, election fever was rising last week in India. Government printing presses rolled around the clock turning out ballots for 210 million eligible voters (all citizens over 21). About 125 million of them-more than the populations of England, France, Canada and Australia-are expected to go to the polls this month in the biggest free election in the world. Voting in most states will last a week beginning Feb. 18; returns from six snowbound constituencies in the north will not be in until April...
Thanks to Rattigan's theatrical flair and the lacerating honesty of John Mills's portrayal of Lawrence, the play carries one along with its promise of some ultimate disclosure of character. The central illusion holds: this could be Lawrence, this could be the Arabian desert. The high-noon blaze of Motley's desert scenes evokes a sandy inferno stretching to infinity, a landscape without perspective in which a man might take himself for a god. By contrast, the R.A.F. barracks are squatty, cramped, mind-dwarfing. But at play's end, this portrait of a hero turns...
...even Allah has been there,'' Bedouin shepherds warned Arabian American Oil Co. Geologist Thomas C. Barger when he began to explore the waterless wastes of Saudi Arabia's Rub Al Khali in 1938. But for four years Tom Barger tramped for oil and mapped Rub Al Khali's shifting sands in 130° heat, making lifelong friends of sheiks and shepherds, princes and kings. Mastering Arabic, he began to handle Aramco's negotiations with King Ibn Saud's government, was named an Aramco vice president in 1958, president in 1959. Last week in Dhahran...
Internationally, the Imam has proved nearly as dexterous, proclaiming a "great balance" program of "grateful acceptance of aid without strings from both East and West." He has watched delightedly while Russia, Red China and the U.S. fought to be the first to lead Yemen out of the Arabian night. Last week Russia's Merchant Marine Minister Viktor Bakaev ar rived in Yemen to put Moscow temporarily in the lead. His task: to hand over a $15 million Red Sea port built by Russia...
JAPANESE OILMEN will get no concessions in their home market from the Japanese government. The home-owned Arabian Oil Co. will not be allowed to pay for its imports with local yen, will have to pay in hard-to-get foreign currencies...