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...ship rice for anything like that price, also point out that there is no world rice shortage; many rice-exporting nations have actually had surpluses since 1954. Nevertheless, Chase & Co. are convinced that there is an enormous, untapped market for rice in such lands as India, Ceylon, Malaya, Borneo, Indonesia, Japan, even China. While there may be a technical surplus, shipping costs from many exporting nations are so high that millions of consumers all over Asia cannot afford all the rice they need and should have. Thus, by growing rice in Australia, close to the markets, Chase hopes to chop...
Comfortably established and drinking hot tea last week in the San Diego Zoo were a pair of proboscis monkeys from Borneo. Roxanne, the female, looks like an ordinary monkey, but Cyrano, the male, has a long, drooping, flexible nose that would make the fortune of a TV comedian. Perhaps Roxanne admires the nose, but it has no use except to give Cyrano's cry a nasal, down-East twang...
Proboscis monkeys (Nasalis larvatus) are seldom seen outside Borneo. San Diego got its pair through G. Wyman Carroll of New Haven, a free-lance animal dealer who spotted a pair in the Surabaya Zoo. At first Surabaya demanded two camels in exchange, then asked for two llamas. Carroll made a counteroffer of two sea lions. Surabaya finally sent the two proboscis monkeys, two Sumatran gibbons, two black langurs and one Celebes phalanger. In return it got two sea lions, two ring-tailed and two spider monkeys, and two U.S. raccoons...
...with the dedication and determination of people who had fought long and bitterly for the right to govern their own affairs, the Indonesians persisted. This week, from the crowded streets of Djakarta to the head-hunting regions of Borneo, Indonesians get their chance to elect their leaders...
...Medical Service Graduate School has recently had a team in Madagascar studying plague, while another worked on scrub typhus in North Borneo. Now the big push on scrub typhus is in Japan (where it becomes tsutsugamushi disease): medics from Walter Reed are at Zama studying the chiggers that transmit the disease, while Japanese artists draw them...