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Cannibals & Curry. For 66-year-old Eric de Bisschop, skipper of the raft Tahiti Nui II, it was a familiar gamble. All his days he had given odds to death and won. Born near the French seaport of Calais, the son of a wealthy and aristocratic family, De Bisschop at 14 ran away from a Jesuit seminary, signed 'on as cabin boy on a sailing ship that beat its way around Cape Horn...
Steaming up the Adriatic aboard ex-King Farouk's former pleasure boat (now renamed Freedom), Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser arrived last week at the beautiful Yugoslav seaport of Dubrovnik, accompanied by his wife, three sons and two daughters. Yugoslavia's Communist Marshal Tito, an old pro among neutralists, was patently pleased to have the hero of the uncommitted Arab masses dropping in just when the Kremlin was waging such heavy propaganda war on Tito...
Ever since they won independence, Brazilians have dreamed of a cool, gleaming inland capital far from the humid, colonial seaport of Rio de Janeiro. Last week, on a 4,000-foot plateau 600 miles northwest of Rio, the first buildings of the new inland capital of Brasilia were inaugurated...
...confronts the problems of its progress. It cannot stand still. It has built homes for people from 80 different lands, coming, as Ben-Gurion once said, from several different centuries. Its new pioneer town, Elath on the Red Sea, had only 500 residents in 1955. now is a booming seaport of 4,000 frontiersmen-half of them fresh from Tunis and Morocco, and a thousand more from Hungary-building piers and unloading cargoes in the hot dry wind, living on tax-free double pay to encourage settlement. The Crusader city of Acre is now a steel mill town. In Abraham...
...power of the real anti-Americans was made clear in the Lebanese seaport of Tripoli. There a mob, demonstrating against the assassination of a pro-Nasser editor, ran amuck, burned the USIA library. Before the riot was over, some 15 were dead, another 30 wounded...