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Ethiopia, Basutoland, Bechuanaland, and Swaziland will send students to the United States under the program for the first time next year. Only countries in Sub-Sahara Africa participate in the program...
Next week Joanie Sommers opens at Las Vegas' super-caravansary, the Sahara, with Donald O'Connor and a $15,000 wardrobe-a handy index to the high cost of converting a cute girl who sings nicely into a major attraction. Two years ago, she played her first club date in a $2.98 ready-to-wear...
...past four weeks, the bleakness of the French Sahara 450 miles south of Algiers has been illuminated night and day by a billowing, 450-ft. torch of flame. Visible for 90 miles and roaring like a dozen jetliners at takeoff, the fire is consuming the riches of the recently discovered Gassi Touil natural-gas field at the staggering rate of 30 million cu. ft. a day-enough gas to meet the average daily requirements of Tucson, Ariz...
Post-Christmas Coup. All this will take costly time. Because GT2 is the Sahara's first fire, equipment that is readily available in other fields has to be flown in from England, France and the U.S. Meantime, a well has to be drilled 2,600 ft. down to water-bearing sands to provide the 40,000 gallons needed daily to shield the firemen and to dampen the area around GT2 in order to prevent sparks from relighting the fire before the gas flow is plugged. While these preliminaries are going on, Adair will continue to pop around the world...
...week, over bitter opposition from the British coal industry, Sir Henry Jones, chairman of the British Gas Council, which operates Britain's nationalized gas industry, won government permission to spend $50.6 million on facilities to handle liquid methane, which Conch will bring in from French wells in the Sahara. Within three years, Jones hopes to be importing enough frozen methane to handle up to 12% of Britain's gas needs...