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Big Profits, Low Taxes. In 40 years, French enterprise and enthusiasm have done a great deal to improve and modernize Morocco. Hydroelectric plants are already irrigating a million acres. The French have crisscrossed the land with 27,000 miles of roads. In, brawling Casablanca, where dozens of new hotels, office...
Last week at Princeton University's Firestone Library, visitors were examining a volume of Buddhist scriptures printed by the monks of a Chinese monastery in 1234, two centuries before Johann Gutenberg closed his press on the first Gutenberg Bible. The rare book was part of Princeton's first...
Agent Gillis was no expert at first, but he became one by talking to book dealers and poring through Peking's Metropolitan Library. He managed to find one of the three existing complete sets (5,020 volumes) of the 1728 Chinese Encyclopedia. He also sent home a priceless rubbing...
Flock Together. In Fort Lauderdale, Fla., cocktail lounge boss H. Greet sued the Miami Rare Bird Farm for $75,000 after 1) two parakeets he bought from the aviary "for Oriental atmosphere" died of parrot fever, 2) the county health department ordered his remaining 25 exotic birds destroyed, 3) his...
When Willie slipped out of Pennsylvania's tough county prison at Holmesburg five years ago-after donning a guard's uniform and waving jauntily to real guards on the walls-many a police inspector ground his molars into a veritable paste and detectives hurled so many cigars into...