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...week of fast-breaking Foreign News stories, most of the rest of the news did not have to be laboriously dug out of statistics or pried out of travelers. On the hint of trouble in the Sudan, Curtis Prendergast flew into Khartoum from Johannesburg, arriving the day the generals took over. In Tokyo, Alexander Campbell filed a detailed story on the crown prince's betrothal that no Japanese newspaper had yet dared print. In Berlin, a TIME correspondent learned about Mayor Willy Brandt's late-hour habits while talking far into the night with the man whose strong...
...weapons system has been more heavily guarded than the MOLE (Molecular Orbiting Low-Level Explorer). First hint of its existence came last spring when a Washington-datelined story in Electronic News reported that the Pentagon "is becoming heavily committed" to a radically new weapons system, added: "The MOLE should put an end to war. No location on earth will be secure from the MOLE." Later stories reported that 1) a special new agency (Subterranean Exploration Agency-SEA > had been set up to handle the new weapon and 2) the prime contract had been awarded to Accuracy Inc. of Waltham, Mass...
...Senate calmly went ahead drafting indictments for corruption. One well-documented case revolved around Rojas' intervention to clear one of his cronies who was caught smuggling cattle into the country. The others were straight from bank and government records: that Rojas and his friends, with only a hint of collateral, used influence to obtain $4,286,170 in loans; that the Rojas family land company, starting with nothing but paper capital, pulled off a $148,000 profit within five months-and never paid a penny in taxes...
...will pump new millions into British Columbia's growing economy. If he does not, other investors will sooner or later pour in the necessary millions to unlock the northland's treasure. No one mistakes the lessons of B.C.'s first century. It is only a hint of the possibilities for the next 100 years...
...Johnny Pascoe, through the years between the wars, disillusionment and divorce from Judy, and love and tragedy with Brenda Marshall, a heroine as high-minded as himself. The third dream sweeps Johnny on to fulfillment as the senior pilot of Aus-Can Airline and to the faintest hint of incest as, all unknowing, he falls in love with his own daughter. But sex in a Shute novel is so aseptic that this episode could scarcely offend an encampment of campfire girls...