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Nobody could deny that Indonesia's government needs some kind of rejuvenation. Large chunks of Sumatra. Indonesia's richest island, have been in open revolt. Deprived of much of the revenue from Sumatra's exports (oil, tin and rubber), the central government has been forced to issue an emergency decree lowering the legal ratio of gold to paper currency from 20% to 15%. For nearly three months the crumbling Cabinet of hapless Premier Ali Sastroamidjojo has clung to office largely on Sukarno's insistence...
Aboard President Eisenhower's personal Constellation Columbine, Saudi Arabia's brown-robed King Saud began his journey back to the Middle East. Moslem monarch of the hour, he bore all the prestige of the ruler of Islam's heartland and of the world's richest oil lands, reinforced by a resplendent reception in Washington. After regal stops in Spain and North Africa, he wall head toward Nasser's Cairo. There the two leaders of the Arab world will meet-with their allies President Kuwatly of Syria and King Hussein of Jordan-to hear of Saud...
...snow-covered wilderness north of Lake Huron, Canada's uranium industry came of age last week. The occasion was the official opening of two big mines. Algom-Quirke and Algom-Nordic, in the world's richest uranium field, the Blind River camp. The mines were opened by Rio Tinto Mining Co. of Canada Ltd., a subsidiary of the 84-year-old British mining firm, Rio Tinto Co., Ltd. of London, which acquired them along with other Blind River properties from Brooklyn-born Joe Hirshhorn for $60 million in cash and securities. At peak the mines will soon...
...Felden's pet chimps are among the best of dozens of characters in A Legacy, a first novel that British critics rated as the richest windfall of 1956. Clearly, Author Bedford has written not only a good novel but one that touches her contemporaries in a vital, highly sensitive nerve. That nerve is the anguished one of old Europe. A Legacy describes the Victorian and Edwardian heyday when well-to-do men and women wandered without let or hindrance in a network of social connections that ran from the tip of Scotland to the toe of Italy. They toiled...
...budget surprised Peruvians not only because Prado had promised austerity but also because he is usually considered a conservative (he is a member of Peru's richest family). One widespread theory was that the aging, ailing President, besides wanting to keep the military and bureaucratic brass happy, was bent on giving his country plenty of public works to remember...