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...Cousteau has no fear at all of the manta ray and the barracuda, two overrated killers of the deep. Sharks are a more puzzling matter. "There is a threat from sharks," admits Cousteau, "but it is very, very small. The last thing for a diver to do is to flee. The good diver stays and faces the shark." Cousteau's men never use knives or guns on sharks because of the danger of provoking attack, shove away intruders with clubs made of broomsticks cut in half. Cousteau himself once routed a shark by socking it on the snout with...
South Africa, said Verwoerd, will welcome whites who flee from lands that come under African rule, "because they . . . are the best immigrants," but his country would never surrender to the black tide. Apartheid was the only way Verwoerd saw, and he begged the opposition United Party to rally behind his policies in toto. He was to be disappointed in this, but could claim another victory of sorts last week. The South African government's Bantu Education department ruled that its officials no longer may shake hands with Africans they meet on official business. To get around any awkward encounters...
There, as throughout Germany, hundreds of Jewish businessmen were being persecuted by the Nazis, forced to sell their businesses at ridiculously low prices to get enough cash to flee Germany. Always a man interested in a cut rate-whatever the moral implications-Neckermann took advantage of the forced sales to buy the mail order house of Carl Joel. As a big supplier to the military, Neckermann was exempted from military duty when World War II began, became a Nazi well connected in party circles. At war's end, the Allies sentenced him to a year's imprisonment...
Never before prosecuted for his conspiracies, De Sérigny tried to flee Algiers by ship. But last week, as police hauled him off to Algiers' Barberousse Prison to join 1,000 imprisoned Moslem rebels, he muttered to himself over and over again: "A De Sérigny in Barberousse! It is impossible! It is incomprehensible!" Time to Talk. Said one Algerian Moslem happily: "Whatever is bad for De Sérigny is good for us." De Gaulle's new assertion of authority over Algeria posed a problem to the leaders of Algeria's five-year...
...transcribed" the Biblical passage into modern language and decided that the columns of smoke, the fire and brimstone that destroyed the cities resulted from the blast "caused by the cosmonauts, who, before takeoff, arranged to blow up dumps of extra nuclear fuel after first warning the surrounding inhabitants" to flee. Those who looked back (e.g., Lot's wife) "were blinded and perished." A little nervously, the Literary Gazette prefaced this saucer-eyed silliness with the caveat that it "stands on the borderline of daring scientific guesswork and scientific fantasy...