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...government press told it, the Nasser men were guided by simple principles. All "imperialist, reactionary and opportunist elements" were eliminated. Amateurs who entered only for publicity were not tolerated. Some were eliminated for their own good, such as one fellah who sold his water buffalo and two-thirds of an acre of land to run for Parliament; the council rejected him in a kindly way on the grounds that he should not waste his substance in a candidacy which they considered hopeless. When other grounds failed, candidates were stricken off "for considerations of the National Union or certain policies"-that...
Idea Man. In Buffalo, Michael P. Gorman, who was bothered, along with other mail handlers, by exhaust fumes from post-office delivery trucks at a loading platform, won a certificate of merit and $12.50 for his suggested solution: turn off the motors...
...will build eleven slips for deep-draft ships, expects to spend $30 million in all by 1965. Cleveland is budgeting $5,000,000 for new piers and the roadways and utilities that will serve them. But shippers complain that some lakeside ports are still in the doldrums. Detroit and Buffalo have done little to prepare for the seaway surge...
...Martine Carol). The major sees no problem at all. "The French," he notes contentedly, "devote to love the care we [British] bring to making tea." His wife, however, experiences a certain tension every time she looks at the head of the water buffalo mounted above their marriage bed, or hears the hearty English governess, one Miss ffyfth, encouraging their son at his barbell exercises with the singing of Rule, Britannia...
...romance. After hundreds of years of isolation in the Himalayas, Nepal's Katmandu is opening up to venturesome tourists. Now peaceful, Viet Nam next month will open a hunting bureau in Saigon, with safari guides, rifles and elephants for hire. Package price for hunting panther, tiger, elephant, buffalo, bear: $8 a day. In all, 115,000 Americans will travel in the Pacific-a gain of 15% over last year...