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...ending with surprise encounters in tropic seas. As Alec Waugh sojourns from Malayan rice fields to Levantine hospitals, from German opera houses to sleepy islands in the Indian Ocean, his plots rise happily out of the travelogue prose. In The Last Chukka, the British manager of a Siamese lumber camp imagines that he has leprosy and goes jungle-crazy; in "Tahiti Waits," a young man avoids marrying the girl he loves by plunging into a passionate affair with a vahine; in The Wicked Baronet, a mystery that began on a slow train through Wessex is resolved on a sun-dappled...
...Percival, Iowa, Farmer Mark Sheldon recalled 1952, when his 1,000 acres of corn were destroyed by floodwaters. Last year, with the tides equally high, he got 61 bushels to the acre, and this year he expects to do even better. In Omaha, Alva Sconce, owner of a lumber company, paid $15,000 to evacuate his yard before the 1952 flood crested. Last year Sconce "didn't blink an eye all spring. But I would have lost the lumber if it wasn't for the dams...
...counter the Common Market's "Inner Six," Finland was eager to join and make it eight. President Kekkonen, wary of riling the Russians, at first refused to broach the subject to Moscow. Only when the Outer Seven put through the first mutual 20% tariff reductions and Finnish lumber and paper exporters began to lose sales to Swedish and Norwegian competition did Kekkonen speak up. Khrushchev came to Kekkonen's 60th birthday celebration last September, shared a private sauna with the Finnish President, emerged to give his grudging consent for Finland to become a qualified member of EFTA...
Scrounging lumber, paint and old furniture, the troupe converted the top floor of the armory into a barracks-style men's dormitory. They turned the second floor into offices, kitchen, dining hall and living room, and the main floor into women's sleeping quarters. Over the doors in the living room they hung their emblem: a life preserver with the words "S.S. Hang Tough," slang for "don't give...
...dating from 1923, is In the Swamp (alternate title: In the Jungle of Cities), which is deliberately obscure and mystifying. Two men, Shlink and Garga, engage in a relentless but seemingly motiveless duel of wills. In typically bizarre Brechtian fashion, Shlink is a Yokohamaborn Malay who has become a lumber merchant in 1912 Chicago. Garga is a lending library clerk who refuses to sell Shlink his personal judgment of a book. Shlink decides to buy Garga's soul instead, and a peculiar campaign of mutual self-abasement develops. At first the audience is led to think that Shlink...