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Last week, in the high reaches of the Sierra Nevada's Le Conte Canyon, 57 air miles from Lone Pine, two geologists and a park ranger came upon pieces of wreckage wedged among rocks near the outlet of an unnamed lake. In the waters of the lake, searchers found a shattered B-24 and all that remained of Bob Hester and his comrades...
...million-strong Bakongo people dream of doing away with the frontiers that currently split them three ways: one-third in Portuguese Angola, one-third in the French-oriented Congo Republic, and one-third in the Belgian Congo. A united Bakongo nation would control Matadi, the chief sea outlet for much of central Africa's vast hinterland...
...screen will be put on sale by Motorola Inc. New suitcase-size model is first big-screen transistorized portable. It weighs 40 Ibs., including a 5-lb. energy cell that provides five to six hours' operation, can be recharged up to 500 times from regular electrical outlet. Price...
...abundant evidence that Lapidus is a disciple of excess. With freewheeling showmanship, he is trying to develop an "alphabet of ornament" that will provoke an emotional revolt against the austerity of modern architecture. In the midway atmosphere of Miami Beach and other resort areas, Lapidus, 57, finds the perfect outlet for the "new sensuality" expressed in his terrazzoed palazzos. "They call my hotels corn," he says proudly, "but they're better than corn. They make people happy, excited, titillated. Vacationers need to feel a sense of adventure. That's why I build my closets so big: people need...
...squeeze caused by De Gaulle's abolition of the parity index linking farm and industrial prices. A month ago, a majority of France's Deputies demanded a special National Assembly session on the farm problem. De Gaulle flatly-and probably unconstitutionally-refused (TIME, March 28). Denied an outlet for their grievances through normal political channels, 400,000 peasants last week turned out across the length and breadth of France in protest demonstrations. In the Breton town of Quimper, farmers in clogs, smocks and broad-brimmed velvet hats blockaded the railway station for three hours, were hurled back from...