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...perches like a nervous hummingbird on the long southeastern rim of Communist China - 61 sq. mi. of uneasy Portuguese suzerainty in a teeming, tumultuous Asian world. This is fabled Macao, a sleepy city of sin, smuggling and games of chance, which, like nearby Hong Kong, is tolerated by Peking mainly as a handy source of hard currency. Thus its 300,000 people live in the knowledge that they might at any time be engulfed by their giant neighbor. "When China breathes," goes one old Macao saying, "we tremble." Last week China breathed, and the tremble was almost seismic...
Last week marked the 19th anniversary of the United Nations' partition of Palestine, which awarded Europe's displaced Jews 8,000 sq. mi. of land to form the new state of Israel and sent 1,300,000 Palestinian refugees drifting into neighboring Arab countries. The bitterness engendered by that partition seems to have deepened rather than dissipated over the years, and Israel's raid on the Jordanian frontier village of Samu (TIME, Nov. 25) has fired it to the danger point. Warned Jordan's King Hussein: "The tensions built up by the events of the last...
...planned. A new Hilton is opening, and the government is getting ready its application for the United Nations. President Johnson is sending Chief Justice Earl Warren to represent him at the ceremonies, and the Duke and Duchess of Kent will represent the Queen. Yet this week, as tiny (166 sq. mi.), ham-shaped Barbados gets its formal independence from Britain-the 23rd British possession to do so since World War II-its air is filled with a sense of restraint and nostalgia not usually associated with independence celebrations...
Construction of the skyscraper complex, a scant 20 minutes by car from the Champs-Élysées, six minutes by rooftop helicopter from Orly and second only to the Pentagon in floor space (3,024,000 sq. ft.), will begin in 1968, provided the Paris Municipal Sites Commission bestows its imprimatur on the building, as expected, by Christmas...
...spotted streams of cool, fresh rain water flowing out into the ocean. After completing the volcanic survey, the B-25 flew back and forth over Hawaii's entire coastline, eventually detecting a total of 219 shore areas that might have underground fresh-water springs. In one 5-sq.-mi. area in Hilo Bay, the scientists estimate, the discharge of fresh water amounts to 100 million gallons a day. Using the infra-red data, the U.S. Geological Survey has just published an atlas of Hawaii's coastal areas pinpointing the location of the underground fresh-water flows. The maps...