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...bigger than California; Java has more people than the American Midwest. Mountains march down the spines of both islands, and a hundred volcanoes drift their smoke against the blue tropical sky. Indonesia bursts with resources, from copra and hemp to teak, tobacco and oil. The world's largest flower, rafflesia, with a diameter of 3 ft., blooms on Madura. The red-brown soil of Java (pop. 52,000,000), terraced with unbelievable ingenuity, produces two rice crops a year. The warm seas send long rollers crashing on the palm-fringed shores of Ternate, with its burgeoning fields of nutmeg...
Witty Sting. Wunderkind Ustinov was born in London, a descendant of a titled Russian who was exiled in 1868. (Peter's grandmother owned the largest caviar fishery in czarist Russia.) His father, a German citizen, was a journalist, spent 14 years as press attache at the German embassy in London. Peter drifted out of school in his teens and into London cabarets, where his mocking monologues kidded diplomats and aristocrats, prima donnas and generals. At an irreverent 18, he enchanted Londoners by mimicking-in ersatz Swahili-an addled bishop of the Church of England who had stayed too long...
...Archbishop of Chicago, largest Roman Catholic diocese in the U.S. (some 2,000,000 members), Tennessee-born Cardinal Stritch is known for devotion to charity, openness to experiment. His 18-year administration saw the establishment of the first U.S. chapter of the secular order Opus Dei (TIME, March 18, 1957) also the launching of the Christian Family Movement and the first vigorous church action to help Puerto Ricans in the U.S His organizing ability and scholar's mine (plus excellent Italian) equip him wel as the first American ever admitted to the Italian-dominated Curia-powerhous of the Vatican...
Following this line, Pratt announced that "my specialty is corn," and proceeded to give an illustrated eight-point talk on the way to raise $82.5 million. Pratt cited a formula indicating how much people should give: (the prospect's largest single gift) times 2 times 3 (years...
Phillips Brooks House is the largest of the University's extra-curricular organizations. Its contributions have been enormous, and largely due to its moral aura it is often looked to as a model undergraduate organization. Since the war, the officers have been elected by the full membership. This system is now to be reversed in favor of the pre-war Cabinet domination...