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...desert sheik, Daddah spent his youth following his father's camel flock. But after his father sent him away to a French-run school in St.Louis de Sénégal, Daddah rose swiftly, serving first as a French army interpreter, later studying at the Sorbonne, where he met and married a pretty French fellow law student. When General Charles de Gaulle came to power, Daddah was Mauritania's only lawyer, and therefore the obvious man to lead his country to self-rule under the semiautonomous government allowed by the French...
...intention of quitting Guantánamo, and the base can undoubtedly defend itself. The Navy does not expect that. What it does wait for is an attempt to make the base untenable by cutting off the only water supply for 6,800 Navymen and dependents, 2,200,000 gal. piped in daily from a Yateras River pumping station five miles outside base limits. Several times in late 1958. Castro's rebels turned off the water just to make the Americans jump. It can be done again; within a few days, the U.S. Navy would be shipping in water tankers...
AUSTRALIAN BOOM will get fresh fuel from Shell's $50 million refinery expansion near Sydney. By 1963, the Shell gasoline plant will be capable of turning out 250 million gal. yearly, 25% of Australia's needs...
LIFT IN BEER raised per capita intake in 1959 for first time since 1948, as sales bubbled up 4.8% to record 89 million bbl. Average consumer drank 15.5 gal. v. 15 gal. in 1958. Top brewers...
...more than 60 transatlantic crossings, made a Casablanca-to-Los Angeles run in the same plane with a 250-h.p. six-cylinder engine and also broke a record (TIME, June 15). This time he switched to a 180-h.p. four-cylinder engine, filled his wing tanks with 60 gal. of fuel, loaded four additional tanks (300 gal.) in the cabin and fuselage. With no supplies except three jugs of water, tea and coffee, he set out across the water...