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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Uplifted Face. The U.S., which channels millions in aid to the Phibun government, and U.S. businessmen who sell their shiny products and soft drinks in Thailand's hospitable atmosphere, also seem content to let things ramble along in their amiable Siamese way. (Since Bangkok has become a kind of focal point for U.S. activity in Southeast Asia, no American has any standing whatever in Bangkok society if he is not rumored to work...
...geologists knew that there was radioactivity there. But most thought it came from thorium, because the outcrops yielded little uranium ore. Geologist Franc R. Joubin, who was working as a private consultant in the area, thought differently; he believed that oxidation of the outcrops had leached away their uranium content, but that underneath there lay a treasure trove of uranium ore. Joubin told Joe Hirshhorn his theory, and Hirshhorn agreed, with associates, to put up $30,000 in 1953 to take core samples in the area. The cores proved Joubin right. The uranium deposit lay in a body extending...
...read "all the books" in the Oxford Union Library, Aldington lists the total (50,000) to prove the task impossible. Even Lawrence's claim to have ridden camelback at the pace of 100 miles a day comes to earth in an avalanche of maps and routes remeasured; not content with that, the debunker goes on to cite facts indicating that Lawrence was not a camel rider anyway and always preferred to cross the desert on foot...
Photographed for the most part among shallow reefs off California and Mexico, and in the Bahamas, Hunters has no story to tell, and makes little effort to zoologize. The camera is content to fish for beauty, and the catch is rich and strange...
...business or industry, and of these, 60% are on the executive level. We discovered that the students tend to follow the parental pattern: more than half the TIME-reading seniors planning business careers expect to become major executives with considerable responsibility. Only a few indicated that they would be content with a minor role and limited authority. Of the seniors aiming for business or industry, most have some definite ideas about the type of company they want to work for after graduation...