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ALONG the main street of Rabat, the newsstands these days are plastered with copies of Peking's monthly picture magazine China in Spanish, Arabic and French-well printed but unrelievedly self-glorifying. In government offices in Rabat, Red Chinese experts discuss expansion of Morocco's tea production. In...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: COMMUNIST RIVALS | 11/21/1960 | See Source »

In these golden days of Arab power, Moslems were the world's intellectual elite-the perfectors of algebra (from the Arabic al-jabr: binding together), the founders of analytical geometry and of plane and spherical trigonometry, pioneers in astronomy (through their need to locate Mecca precisely). As scholars flocked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Renaissance in Fez | 10/24/1960 | See Source »

Dine-A-Mite & Poker Chips. The man responsible for keeping soldiers and their families well supplied is Brigadier General Ray Joseph Laux, 52, a grey-haired, blue-eyed Quartermaster Corps planning expert. From his office at worldwide exchange headquarters in Manhattan, General Laux commands a retailing complex that could demand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: The Serviceman's Utopia | 8/15/1960 | See Source »

Tomato Sauce. Like 37-year-old Azzam himself-who was born in Cairo, lives in Geneva, drives a Chevrolet station wagon and speaks five languages-the song is a hybrid, Eurafrican polyglot. Written in French, Italian and Arabic, its lyrics may have been found in a Babel café:

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE JUKEBOX: Most Happy Fellah | 5/30/1960 | See Source »

Loudon anticipated the nationalistic pressures of the postwar era, began pushing for more local nationals in executive spots, and has since turned company policy completely around. The company spends about $7,400,000 a year to develop promising talent in the countries where it operates. It has 60 young executives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSINESS ABROAD: The Diplomats of Oil | 5/9/1960 | See Source »

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