Word: oil
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...Natural Union." There was none of the wild display of popular joy in Jordan last week that followed the unity proclamation in Cairo and Damascus. Yet, said an Iraqi leader: "This is the more natural union." Iraq and Jordan go together geographically, historically, and even-because Iraq has the oil wealth and the living space to absorb Jordan's refugees-economically...
...Oil Squeeze. Few guns are likely to be fired in anger between the supporters of Indonesia's rival governments. The armies are small ones-measurable in battalions rather than divisions-and there is no easy way for them to get at each other, since neither side has enough warships or transports to mount an invasion. The rebels have no aircraft at all; the central government has only a few, with perhaps several hundred paratroopers. Java has more population (54 million, v. Sumatra's 12 million). But Java must import even its food, is already in serious economic difficulties...
From Caracas, the Houston Post's Reporter Jack Donahue last week sent his paper a penetrating series on a topic close to Texans: the precarious future of U.S. oil companies in post-revolutionary Venezuela. Hitting an even more sensitive nerve, the Post ran a Page One series by Staffer Leon Hale on Texas A. & M.'s deep-rooted schism over basic educational policies. Other staff-written stories in the bright, boldly laid-out Post last week ranged from Business Editor Sam Weiner's rundown on the recession's impact to Austin Correspondent Felton West...
...years, staked out a reputation as the Southwest's most readable daily. It has also seized the rank of Houston's No. I paper from the staunchly segregationist evening Chronicle, which in its dyspeptic distrust of Eisenhower Republicanism, the U.N., and U.S. allies often sounds like an oil-belt echo of the Chicago Tribune...
Last week Welder Pierre tried again to double his loot, and cracked. The question: "To prepare a substitute for chinawood oil, castor oil is submitted to a careful pyrolysis. What are the two volatile compounds that are formed as byproducts?"* Pierre stood in anguished silence as the seconds and his millions slipped away. But after the disaster came a pleasant surprise: a consolation check for 1,000,000 francs from the sponsoring soapmaker...