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Sweeping across African skies in his DC-6B, Richard Nixon got the word that protocol would demand top hat. cutaway and striped trousers at the next stop of his African good-will tour in Liberia. Thus, when the plane landed (with one ailing engine), the Vice President of the U.S., already sweltering in his formal attire, and his summer-clad wife debarked into sizzling sunshine, shook hands all around. After the greetings they stepped quickly to an air-conditioned Cadillac for the 50-mile trip to the capital of Monrovia. The new comfort did not last...
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...Dutch royal family were miles apart last week. Queen Juliana, struggling to maintain a gracious smile after entertaining Liberia's visiting President Tubman in The Hague, took off for a vacation in Sicily with a few of her ladies-in-waiting. Her husband, globetrotting Prince Bernhard, after elephant hunting in Tanganyika, arrived in the U.S. for a visit to Washington, New Orleans and New York...
...able to haul oil cheaper than U.S. producers can in their own tankers and pile up fabulous profits because, like most independents, he whittles operating costs to the bone, runs all but a few of his ships under "flags of convenience." Registered by mail order in Panama or Liberia, the ships pay only nominal taxes,* e.g., 10? a ton yearly, employ nonunion crews and are unlikely ever to be seized for defense reasons. Niarchos, in addition, pays no corporate taxes on most of his profits. These are considerations which no banker can afford to overlook. As an approving London banker...
...converting the illiterate to literacy in the process. One such journal turned up on my desk this week: Issue No. 259 of the Loma Weekly, a Mimeographed paper that serves the natives of the mud-hut village of Wozi (estimated population: 250) in the dense, equatorial rain forest of Liberia. Reading it in New York, some 5,000 miles away, I found Wozi's news lively, to say the least...