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Members of the Penan tribe of northeastern Borneo know that Batu Lawi, a 2,000-m sheer limestone pinnacle, is a demon-haunted place to be avoided at all costs. To Bruno Manser, however, Batu Lawi represented everything he loved about the untouched forest of the region. He almost perished trying to reach its summit in 1988. As he told friends, he spent 24 hours hanging from a rope, unable to reach the rock face. Only a desperate swing brought him within grabbing distance of the rock...
BRITAIN. Growth was already slowing when the oil emergency and a coal miners' ban on overtime work caused the government to order drastic austerity. Now, says W.A.P. Manser, adviser to a London merchant bank, the political situation makes economic forecasting virtually impossible for the short term. The outcome for the year will depend not only on the Arabs but also on how long the government holds to a mandatory three-day week for industry -which in turn depends on its negotiations with the Mineworkers Union...
...Manser does opine that if the three-day week lasts only a month or six weeks into 1974, industry can probably recover the lost output in the remainder of the year-provided that the Arabs decide to make enough oil available...
Rallying from behind late in the fourth quarter, the Funsters finally connected on a ten-yard pass from DeWard Manser to Charley Mann for their only score...
...Republican ranks only one entry is left who appears in any way worthy of consideration. For two of the candidates, Manser and Cook, who entered the race merely to split the ticket, were unceremoniously removed from the ballot, a rejection, which, judging from the quality of the other contestants, hardly speaks well for their qualifications. The most promising of the Republicans is Malcolm E. Nichols '99, whose supporters hail him as the new Messiah chiefly because he was able to reduce taxes in the boom years of 1926 to 1929. Indeed his lieutenants are handing out literature to show...