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...Last Stand. When military police reached the scene, many of the sadhus had fled, but a sturdy minority, including Pagala Baba, had retired to a maze of underground cells within the tunnel-honeycombed fortress, and had to be flushed out one by one with tear gas. In the courtyard the police found a huge chariot in which the mad monk's disciples were wont to haul him about. Statues of Pagala Baba were displayed in the gardens and orchards of the math. His bedroom was adorned with tiger skins and statuettes of nude women. Underground, behind steel doors...
Even before the turbulent '20s, when the oil interests of the Middle East were being shuffled through a maze of complex reorganizations, Gulbenkian's talent for cutting himself in on virtually every deal earned him the sobriquet "Mr. 5%." Meanwhile, the profits he reaped were plowed into scores of other financial interests and one of the finest and most diffuse art collections in the world...
...phoned Robertson, who refused to let him accompany him to the airport. Rushing to the airport alone. Beal questioned DOS men waiting to see the party off. They were noncommittal. But Beal, circulating and asking circumspect questions, picked up the clue that sent him racing back into the maze of Washington officialdom...
ACROSS the world, another TIME veteran, DWIGHT MARTIN, who has ranged the Far East since 1948, threaded through a maze of a different kind to report the Bandung conference story. Upset at Bandung (see FOREIGN NEWS). "The principal feature of any international conference is confusion.'' he cabled. Bandung was no exception. Martin worked day and night, fathoming the multilingual confusion, and fighting his dispatches through already overtaxed cable offices - all the while sustaining himself on such peppery Indonesian fare as meat with chili, potatoes with chili and ferns with chili, washed down with a cloyingly sweet cider...
...action from sequence to sequence. Nothing is left to human error. Even the voice that intones the final count over the loudspeakers on Yucca Flat has been recorded on a tape that cannot blow its lines from human emotion. Electric current travels a full 15 minutes through a maze of relays, switches, condensers, coils, filaments and generators. There are safety checks along the way, fuses and other devices that can take back Dr. Graves' decision up to half a second before the zero second, but if all goes well, the current at last rams into the device...