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London's Daily Telegraph called it "Britain's unlikeliest colony." Mauritius, a speck of land in the Indian Ocean 1,400 miles off the African coast, fell to Britain 158 years ago during the Napoleonic wars. Since then, it has cost dearly: a $60-a-ton subsidy on the island's only crop (sugar), almost $8,000,000 in budget support last year alone, and the necessity of moving in troops every time the country's Hindus, Moslems, Chinese and French-speaking Creoles decide to quarrel. No wonder Britain felt relief last week when independence finally...
...after Paleontologist Colbert's identification, the burden is on them to explain how a fresh-water amphibian swam through hundreds of miles of saltwater ocean to reach Antarctica and die at the bottom of a stream only 325 miles from the South Pole...
...dogsled competition, he charged double rates. In a few years, Wien acquired some of his less successful competitors, invited his brothers Fritz and Sigurd to join him in Alaska, and soon the Wien line's Ford Tri-Motors and Curtiss Robins were serving Barter Island on the Arctic Ocean and Eskimo villages along Norton Sound...
...prospect of prosperity came in 1962, when Standard Oil Heiress Rebekah Harkness, a longtime ballet buff, invited the company to her 49-room ocean-front mansion in Watch Hill, R.I., to initiate a summer dance workshop. Lady Bountiful they called her, and so it seemed during the next two years when she helped finance the successful Jeffrey tours of the Near East and Russia. As time went on, however, Lady Bountiful began to seem more like Lady Macbeth to Jeffrey. She wanted more say in artistic matters and insisted on changing the company's name to her own. Jeffrey...
Died. General Charles Ailleret, 61, France's top soldier, chairman of the Chiefs of Staff and builder of his country's nuclear force de frappe; when his military DC-6 crashed on takeoff from the Indian Ocean island of Réunion, killing 19 aboard, including his wife and daughter. Placed in charge of developing a French Abomb, Ailleret orchestrated the project that succeeded in detonating a low-yield plutonium device in the Sahara in 1960; as Chief of Staff, he planned the "all azimuths" strategy, in which France seeks the ability to deliver nuclear weapons...