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...revolt against Portugal's harsh colonial rule simmering for 17 months. Convinced by their witch doctors that Portuguese bullets would turn to water, and smeared with white paste that they thought would make them invisible, the rebels last year began an orgy of terror. Armed with machetes and crude rifles made from pipe, old cans and rubber bands, they mutilated their victims because of the native belief that mutilation prevents a body from going to heaven; men's penises were chopped off and nailed to trees, women were impaled on sticks. One coffee plantation owner was forced...
...incredibly simple for an incompetent to write an experimental play these days, for one need only gather up the familiar themes and put them into a gaudy collage. The themes by now are well-established: crude irreverance for religion, farcical treatment of patriotism, glorification of the non-conformist, and above all, desecration of the rational, the normal, the commomplace. In "The Two-Headed Baby" Andrews doesn't miss a trick...
...TEXACO'S profits rose 14.3% above last year to 82^ a share, to give the oil company record first-half earnings of $1.73 a share; STANDARD OIL OF CALIFORNIA also profited from bigger crude oil and natural gas sales to boost its first-half earnings 5%, to $2.25 a share...
...coronary arteries, it is not yet certain whether cholesterol is the original cause of damage or a secondary invader. Many high-cholesterol men never have heart attacks at all. While doctors use the cholesterol level as a guide to the amount of fat in the blood, it is a crude and unreliable measure: it varies with exercise and whatever drugs the patient may have taken; it depends on whether he has been nibbling snacks or eating three meals a day. It changes with his emotional ten sion (how worried is he about this test?), and even with the amount...
...machinery. Idemitsu cracks the oil at his Tokuyama refinery-the Orient's biggest -and then markets much of it from his chain of 1,500 modernistic gas stations. His competitors, bitter at Idemitsu's price cutting, charge that his operations will make Japan overly dependent on Russian crude. Idemitsu answers that less than 7% of Japan's oil now comes from Russia, and that almost 80% of his own supply is bought from the West, chiefly from U.S. operators in Texas and the Middle East. "I have no interest in politics," says Idemitsu with a soft smile...