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...MINOR crisis was brewing in the -» tiny British protectorate of Brunei as Paul Hurmuses, TIME'S Hong Kong staff correspondent, paid a visit there last week. The local Sultan, who rules that little nation of former wild men of Borneo, wanted his entire palace air-conditioned. His comely and strong-minded wife insisted that the bedrooms be left free of this 20th century improvement. "Don't worry," an aide whispered, "he'll win her over, but it will take time." For an account of some greater triumphs achieved by the Sultan of Brunei in bringing...
Black oil, bubbling unexpectedly from the bowels of the earth, often begets friction and fire as well as power and progress. But in one small corner of northwest Borneo, thanks to the cooperation of a Britain grown wiser through past mistakes and an Oriental potentate with a social conscience, the discovery of oil has set a tiny nation of some of the world's most primitive people rocketing toward a prosperous future on smoothly lubricated wheels...
...Harvard graduate, Class of '35, has reportedly found $50 million in gold in the wreck of a Japanese ship in the Sulu Sea, between the Philippines and Borneo...
...President Sukarno's white-pillared presidential palace at Djakarta, Java came report after report of revolt and separatist movements, from the northern tip of Sumatra on the Indian Ocean to Borneo, the Celebes and Amboina, some 3,000 miles away in the Banda Sea. There was a new outbreak in South Sumatra. It is largely the reputation of Sukarno that holds the sprawling Republic of Indonesia together, but what threatened to sever it last week was a recent decision by Sukarno himself: to include Indonesia's Communists in his government...
...older preoccupations deep in his nature would not be denied. He spoke of the "private gnawing worm" which ate at his childhood. The worm was an unshakable sense of doom that haunted him, as did the stern themes of duty and responsibility. At the end of the world, on Borneo, he ran across a half-caste called Almayer who belonged to no world. Thus with Almayer's Folly began his great work. Almost compulsively, Conrad wrote between watches in his cabin aboard the Torrens, a crack Aus tralian-run clipper. The book was accepted, and he never sailed again...