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Shipowner Stavros Niarchos, after war service in the Greek navy, is building the largest cargo ship ever built in the U.S., the largest tanker in the world [TIME, Feb. 22]. Admiral Nearchus (325 B.C.), explorer, built ships and sailed from the mouth of the Indus across the Arabian Sea and up to the head of the Persian Gulf. He and his crew reported to their commander in chief Alexander the Great in Iran, after a two-year voyage of tremendous hardship and valor. Could be ... a case of long-distance heredity...
...British socialist policies than Marxism ever had, is hard put to stir up the old fervor in these days of the welfare state. Methodism's great 19th century battles on behalf of the over worked, the overcrowded and the under paid in the lusty turmoil of the Indus trial Revolution have now been won in the sooty cities of the Midlands, on the docksides of the Tyne and in the slag-heaped valleys of Wales. And Methodist zeal for social betterment is left with such low-calorie crusades as temperance, the discouragement of gambling and the abolition of vulgar...
Pakistan complained to the U.N. last week that it "faces an unparalleled threat-starvation by a process of slow strangulation." The strangler, said Pakistan, is its neighbor, India. The process: "depriving 76 million persons of the waters of the Indus basin, by which they live...
More Expansion. Until now, these and other "aromatic" chemicals (also used in perfumes, synthetic rubber, explosives and drugs) have been based on raw materials drawn from byproducts of the steel indus. try's coke ovens. Yet demand for them is growing at an average rate of 30% a year, while the supply has been growing by less than 5%. With the information gained from the new pilot plant, Union Carbide hopes soon to build a full-scale hydrogenation plant which will help solve this raw-materials problem for good...
...Besides half a dozen occupation headquarters, there are the German government at Bonn, special agencies like the Allied Security Board at Coblenz, various provincial governments, and the separate officials at Berlin. Gibbs describes Germany as hydra-like, with "the political head at Bonn, the cultural head at Munich, the indus trial head at Diissel-dorf, and the traditional head at Berlin." The bureau is also responsible for news from Austria and Yugoslavia. Just as Berlin serves as the listening post for Poland and East Germany, so Vienna is the siphoning spot for information from Czechoslovakia and Hun gary. Belgrade...