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...year reign, Emir Abdullah as Salem as Sabah transformed his Connecticut-sized sheikdom of Kuwait from a poverty-plagued sand pile at the head of the Persian Gulf into the world's most prosperous Arab state. With a national income of $30,000 a year per native family, his 468,000 people became the wealthiest on earth. The rea son: beneath the waterless desert lies one quarter of the world's oil. Though that fortune was all his own by dynastic right, Sheik Abdullah squandered none of it on sybaritic pleasures, used his billions in royalties to drag...
...Sands of the Kalahari. A hired plane crashes and burns in the wastes of South-West Africa. Out of the flaming wreckage crawl six survivors: five men and a woman. Their plight unknown, they face an ordeal by sun, sand, hunger, thirst and, as it turns out, sexual desire. Who will live? Who will die? Who will prove his strength, or weakness? And who will get the girl...
...Humphreys stayed up most of the night teaching himself how to manipulate them. He cut into his patient gently, slicing ever so carefully down to and around the grenade. Then the pincers. Slowly the surgeon got a grip; tenderly he lifted the grenade and moved it toward a sand-filled container. Less than four minutes after he start ed, Dr. Humphreys sighed: "It's in the box." Mr. Chin...
...MOMENT OF TRUTH. Blood, sand and social protest mix liberally in Director Francesco Rosi's angry drama about the rise and fall of a great bullfighter-played with impressive sting by Spanish Matador Miguel Mateo...
...fact, furriers are using everything short of their own hides - Russian fitch, French rabbit, Algerian sand rat, Polish pony, Australian kangaroo and Wyoming buffalo. And they are handling the animal skins like fabric, tailoring them into haute couture shapes, cutting them into culottes, evening gowns and leggings. Taking even greater lib erties, the furriers are dyeing skins col ors nature never dreamed of, and in patterns taken right off the walls of an Op-Pop gallery. The fun furs are for secretaries who want the feel of fur without the financial pinch of mink and for two-mink socialites...