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Climaxing a two-year investigation, a commission of inquiry in Colombo accused 22 Ceylonese navy officers-the cream of the top naval leadership-of conspiring to smuggle a treasure-trove of contraband into the country. Chief among them is the former naval chief of staff, Rear Admiral Royce de Mel...
Compared to Mount Everest, the Sahara is a sultan's garden and the Amazon jungle is a farmer's meadow. At its summit, the highest point on earth, 29,028 ft. above sea level, spores have trouble surviving. The hardiest of mountain creatures-the snow leopard, the lammergeier...
To try to catch up, U.S. businessmen plan to concentrate two-thirds of their projected $40 billion in capital spending this year on modernization. The Government has helped to get them moving. Under the Administration's new depreciation allowance, companies can depreciate new equipment 18% faster than before; under...
The Kennedy Administration's foreign policy is less ambitious than liberation, more positive than containment. Walt Whitman Rostow, head of the State Department's policy planning board, sums it up like this: "We seek to build a community of independent nations, their governments increasingly responsive to the consent...
Bugs in the Treasury. In his long years of oil-less rule, Sheik Shakhbut ran his country on customs duties of $140,000 a year, fought some desultory wars with his neighbors in Sharja and Dubai, and lived quietly in his mud-walled palace on an offshore island. He installed...