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Prehistoric Pompeii. Professor Blanc's discovery near Rome not only predates Homer but may even date back to Java man, who roamed the Southeast Asiatic area in the early part of the glacial epoch. A professor of human paleontology...
Soekarno met Hartini in 1953 during a ceremonial visit to Solo, in Central Java. Long before, according to the outraged ladies, Hartini had been only intermittently attentive to her husband and five children. In the months that followed, Hartini was rarely at home, and Indonesian society clattered with talk of the President's clandestine romance. A year ago, a leading women's organization circulated a letter to women's clubs charging that Soekarno had married his girl. Only then did Soekarno admit that he had taken Hartini as a second wife in June 1954, and claimed that...
After the Java Sea defeat, he wrote a sardonic song called I Wanted Wings. Pilots were still singing it, eight years later, in Korea. As famous throughout the Pacific as his war song was Dowling's personal courage. Terrified of flying, he tried to overcome his fear by parachuting. On Luzon, he made a battle jump with the 11th Airborne Division in civilian street shoes. Result: one broken ankle. Said TIME HEMISPHERE Editor John Walker, who survived the Leyte bomb blast with Dowling: "Being with him made you braver than you were...
...weeks ago after 27 years of operation. Philco Radio and Britain's vast Imperial Chemical Industries are expected to follow quite soon. At Tandjong Priok, the capital's seaport, costly prefabricated school buildings are rusting on wharves because someone has forgotten them; at Bandung, in West Java, a $45 million munitions factory sits unassembled because the officials who imported it forgot also to import technicians to put it into operation...
...state of siege and war - that is, martial law - in three islands dominated by the secessionist rebels who have set up what they call the Republic of the South Moluccas. Other revolts are already in progress in parts of northern Sumatra, Celebes, southern Borneo, and western and central Java. Some government officials admit in private that even with effective and stable central government, revolt and rection will take years to overcome...