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...faraway island there lives a young king with so much money that he doesn't know-quite-what to do. He is Omar Ali Saifuddin, 37, the benevolent Sultan of Brunei. A British protectorate, his small realm (2,226 sq.mi.; pop. 41,000) lies on the northwest coast of Borneo, and its money-about $25 million a year-comes mostly from oil. Last summer Omar Ali Saifuddin decreed an ambitious welfare program costing $33 million (TIME, Aug. 31). But there was still a surplus. So the young Sultan cast a philanthropic eye on Malaya, a neighboring, blood-related British...
...technique. Miss Colish, who is concertmistress of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra and a pupil of Richard Burgin, opened her program with Corelli's Sonata No. 2. This she played quite stiffly; the notes were all there but she lacked the fire so necessary to lift the sonata above the realm of stodgy period pieces...
...civilization, and the West, a materialistic one . . . It is very humiliating for an Oriental like myself to read that John Foster Dulles of materialistic America is championing the cause of moral and spiritual principles, whereas Jawaharlal Nehru of spiritual India is advocating the adoption of political expedience in the realm of international politics. Can it be that India has degenerated spiritually so low as to copy the Machiavellian practices of the Western nations? . . . No one can be too proud of the role that Nehru has played in the struggle between Democracy and Communism...
...should be noted," said the report, "that differences of Christian opinion usually occur in the realm of means rather than that of ends." Granted a desirable end, it is rare that one means of achieving it "can be singled out as the only 'Christian' way, and therefore most deserving of the support of the church"-whereas the literature of the council "has sometimes been definitely slanted in the direction of a particular political or economic program." In lobbying, if ever, the council "should not take a partisan position on matters on which the churches are not substantially united...
...realm of animal behavior is the special concern of Donald R. Griffin '38, professor of Zoology. He is particularly interested in echolocation, the ability of animals such as bats and birds to navigate in the dark by mans of their sensitivity to supersonic sounds...