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...sheep-ox). Also, it has no musk sacs. It gives tasty milk, produces one of the softest wools known to man, and yields meat (though only if killed) which tastes like a combination of mutton and beef. Teal plans to lead an expedition to Ellesmere Island in the Canadian archipelago next autumn (when this year's crop of musk-ox calves will have reached the size of police dogs), snatch eight of the small fry from their mothers, and bring them back to his Vermont farm...
Bahrein, just 100 minutes by plane across the Persian Gulf from Kuwait, epitomizes the progress that can be made when a sheikdom has a good ruler, a devoted foreign adviser, and enough oil royalties to work with. The five-island archipelago produces only one-thirtieth of Saudi Arabia's crude, has one-fortieth of Iraq's proven reserves, earns but a fiftieth of Kuwait's royalties. Yet Bahrein (rhyme with ah, rain) is the showplace of the oil kingdoms. Manama, the capital, looks more like a clean town in the West Indies or Bermuda than an Arab...
...101st day of the 4,300-mile voyage, the Kon-Tiki piled up on a reef just off a lovely island in the Tuamotu Archipelago. Three or four days before that, friendly natives had paddled out to visit the raft. Where, they asked knowingly in sign language, was the engine? When they realized there was none, their faces expressed pure 20th Century astonishment...
When the United States of Indonesia was born last month, a wave of forgive & forget sentiment swept over the archipelago. Most Dutch and Indonesian leaders recognized that their future interests ran parallel. Last week a formidable fly stuck firmly in the salve of cooperation...
Back to Business. Next day, Batavia got back to business and the new government began to take over the scores of administrative departments which serve the 3,000 islands of the Indonesian archipelago. For the time being, only the top jobs would shift to Indonesian hands. The head of the government's biggest bureau, the 1,500-man Ministry of Economics, introduced the Dutch staff to its new Indonesian boss and told the Dutchmen: "Now, you must try to be officials without being officials...