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...spots, and has since turned company policy completely around. The company spends about $7,400,000 a year to develop promising talent in the countries where it operates. It has 60 young executives of 27 nationalities working around the world, frequently cross-posts them (a Filipino to Lebanon, a Moroccan to Indonesia). To help its Middle East salesmen describe their products, it hired Lebanese Poet George Silisty to devise a dictionary of new Arabic terms to suit the modern petroleum industry...
...Moroccan Dagger. Young André explained: Lawyer Jaccoud's mistress for the past eight years was a fellow worker at Radio Geneva, slim Linda Baud, 38. André had wooed and won the susceptible Linda, and Jaccoud's reaction had been one of hysterical jealousy. He sent neurotic, anonymous letters to André, including photographs of Linda in the nude...
...Jaccoud's absence on a business trip to Sweden, police searched his house and office, impounded two pistols, an exotic Moroccan dagger, Jaccoud's bicycle and clothing. The police laboratory reported that there were traces of blood and human liver on the dagger, and tiny bloodstains on Jaccoud's raincoat and on his bicycle. Furthermore, a button was missing from his raincoat, and a similar button was found just outside the house...
...hundred feet long, six hundred feet high and six feet wide," and the statement was only a slight exaggeration. What gave special relish to the job for Nat Owings was that in 32 years of designing, including work on such large-scale projects as Oak Ridge, Tenn., Moroccan airbases, and Crown Zellerbach's new building in San Francisco (TIME, Sept. 7), he had never built a house...
Something Done. After spending several weeks of detective work to trace the mysterious outbreak to its common source, the Moroccan government ap pealed to the International Red Cross for help. Moroccan police placed all cooking-oil stocks under their control, stopped sales of the poison stuff (and the spread of the paralysis) outside the Meknes area. They also jailed the 25 merchants. King Mohammed V, whose powers are unlimited by any parliamentary control, put out a royal edict decreeing death for "crimes against the health of the nation," and making the edict retroactive to cover the poison-oil case...