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Franklin goes unsung in the U.S., but is famous in the exotic cities listed on its Manhattan front door: Cairo, Beirut, Baghdad, Tehran. Lahore, Dacca, Kuala Lumpur, Djakarta. In those places, far from Manhattan's Publishers' Row, Franklin in ten years has guided the printing of 26,477,800 books in such exotic languages as Arabic, Persian, Pashto, Urdu, Bengali, Malay and Indonesian...
...Djakarta diplomatic reception last year, Bung Karno (meaning Brother Karno) showed up in a beautifully tailored white uniform-barefoot. As he padded around the terraces and lawns, Sukarno explained that an electric storm was brewing and "I want to build up my energy. I absorb electric impulses from the ground." Some time ago, Bung was told by his dukun (medicine man and soothsayer) that his life would be in no danger so long as he avoided contact with steel. Sukarno thus decided against the kidney surgery advised by his medical specialists, instead relied for a cure on a team...
Indonesia's rabble-rousing, globe-trotting President Sukarno gets a kick out of meeting other heads of state-it boosts his prestige. But last week Sukarno summoned Britain's ambassador to Djakarta, regretfully called off a trip to London (scheduled for next week) to meet Queen Elizabeth. The British managed to control their disappointment...
...market rate for U.S. dollars has climbed 100% in eight months. The price for once-plentiful rice has trebled in three months. In wide areas, famine is raging, and troop rations have been slashed to rush food to the people. Thousands of people were suffering from malnutrition, and near Djakarta 70 were reported dead of starvation...
...existentialism of Rudolf Bultmann (TIME, April 14, 1961). All this is fine with Barth himself, who dis owns the idea of a school - "except for my two sons" - meaning Markus, 46, a New Testament scholar at the University of Chicago, and Christoph, 44, who teach es Old Testament in Djakarta...