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...from the world's greatest piece of art-or even Africa's. A 5-ft. 2½in. image of a king, it is rather crudely carved in iroko wood, the torso covered with sackcloth stitched with reddish-brown beads, the face masked in copper. But the Afo-A-Kom (literally, the Kom thing) is sacred to the approximately 30,000 people who constitute the Kom kingdom, a tribal enclave in the northwestern part of the Federal Republic of Cameroon...
...slight man with reddish brown hair, Sherrill at 36 has an old-young face lit with intelligence and sudden flashes of humor, but worn by the anxiety that comes from having to live by one's wits too early. He eschews the blaring cowboy suits and diamond stickpins of Music City, lives quietly with his wife and eleven-year-old daughter in a spacious, antique-furnished $100,000 home overlooking Nashville...
...million package is the biggest project involving Americans to be started in Egypt since 1956, when John Foster Dulles, then Secretary of State, withdrew an offer of U.S. aid for the Aswan High Dam. Appropriately enough, it was arranged by an Egyptian-born Lebanese: reddish-haired, bespectacled Roger Tamraz, 34, a Harvard Business School graduate who heads Kidder, Peabody's Mideast office. He plucked the contract from a consortium of 16 European firms that had signed a preliminary agreement to build the pipeline in 1971. Says Tamraz: "It was straight out of the golden age of merchant banking, before...
...ROUTE 1, NEAR EASTPORT, MAINE--U.S. Route 1 is a narrow, two-lane asphalt highway, winding its way through Washington County in eastern Maine. The leaves on the trees by the side of the road are tipped with reddish orange as the first touches of autumn begin to envelop the county, even now at the end of August...
...island to the Iwo Jima chain. After flying over the belching volcano last week, Japanese officials reported that the northern edge of the doughnut-shaped crater has risen some 160 ft. above sea level and the southern edge about 65 ft. Debris from the eruption has turned the Pacific reddish brown for miles around...