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...rumors being spread by the Arab socialist press could be believed, what they would be talking about was a conservative anti-Nasser "Islamic alliance" among Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Iran. This was vast exaggeration, but there was no blinking the fact that the Three Kings of Orient had been drawing closer together, settling their differences and emerging as a force that could prove to be an important balance against the socialist countries of the Middle East...
...million business, has 413 clients who pay for the right to use its process. It is about to open a Canadian branch, will soon license a Far East operation to be called Koratron Technique Hong Kong, which will take advantage of the huge clothing market in the Orient...
...against an imaginary bow, he showed us how he reels in "marlin bigger than I am." The other Beach Boys have other preoccupations. "Carl spends money, Brian writes songs, and I just like speed and competition," Dennis says. "I don't like Europe and I don't like the Orient. I like Redondo Beach and Hawthorne and Inglewood, the places I grew up in. That...
...Thorwald considers his sub ject in four tidy divisions. ∙ CRIMINAL IDENTIFICATION, the funda mental problem of detection, began to be a science in 1879, when Alphonse Bertillon introduced a system of anthropometry involving some eleven bodily measurements of each criminal. Fingerprinting, long a form of signature in the Orient, was introduced to Europe by Britain's William Herschel, and it had to compete with anthropometry until 1904, when two prisoners at Fort Leavenworth were found to have identi cal features, practically identical anthropometric measurements and identical names: Will West. Only their fingerprints were different, and within seven years...
...institutions in the Orient appear more mysterious-or more Eastern-to Westerners than the Bank of China. Like a statue of a Bodhisattva, it seems to have many faces and arms. In Saigon, Tokyo, Sydney or New York, the local branches of the bank are controlled by the Chinese Nationalists and report to Taiwan. In Hong Kong, Singapore and London, the bank appears to be the same, but the branches are controlled by the Chinese Communists and answer to Peking. Remembering which is which can become confusing...