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Money comes in through "voluntary" contributions, and most of it is lavished on its Taisekiji temple (which it hopes to make a national shrine) at the foot of Fujiyama and on some 130 branch temples scattered throughout Japan. Claiming a membership of 1,100,000 families, the current sect leader...
The first Costa Rica-based rebel C46 landed 40 men, armed with 7-mm. Mauser rifles and automatic weapons, in a pasture 90 miles east of Managua. There they met 60 allies leading pack mules and horses and headed into trackless jungle to the east. The second C46 landed heavily...
The rebellion was aimed not only at the Somoza brothers, but also at the shade of their late father. Dictator Anastasio Somoza. By torturing, killing or exiling his opponents. ''Tacho" Somoza ran Nicaragua 20 years, stacked up an estimated $60 million in cash and property. When Tacho was...
The National Geographic Society, which finances scientific discovery, prints maps, and publishes the National Geographic Magazine, is the least exclusive, farthest flung and most improbable nonprofit publishing corporation in the world. Last year it sponsored an expedition to South America in search of the world's largest ant (longer...
Behind the National Geographic's familiar, fussy, yellow-bordered cover-essentially unchanged since 1910-lies a publishing success formula as improbable as the society that conceived it. The charter members met in Washington one January night in 1888 determined to promote "the increase and diffusion of geographic knowledge." At...