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Compared to Mount Everest, the Sahara is a sultan's garden and the Amazon jungle is a farmer's meadow. At its summit, the highest point on earth, 29,028 ft. above sea level, spores have trouble surviving. The hardiest of mountain creatures-the snow leopard, the lammergeier vulture-stay clear of its bitter cold (down to -50°F.) and raging gales (up to 150 m.p.h.), and even the Abominable Snowman-whatever he is-confines his ambulations to the Tibetan plateau, 12,000 ft. below. Transported suddenly to its upper ridges, without an oxygen mask, a healthy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mountain Climbing: Up to the Gods | 5/10/1963 | See Source »

Five times a day for the past 30 years, thin, threadbare Sheik Shakhbut bin Sultan faced west, bowed low, and prayed for an oil strike. His realm of Abu Dhabi was desperately in need of some good luck. Up and down the Persian Gulf, the states of Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Iran were rolling in oil wealth. But year after year, Abu Dhabi's 25,000 sq. mi. of sand, date palms and barren offshore islands just got hotter, more humid and windswept than before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: Sheik Jackpot | 5/3/1963 | See Source »

...Sultan of the Walaguru of Morogoro. Tanganyika, will talk on "The Role of Women in East Africa" at 7 p.m. in Cabot Hall tonight, and on "Tanganyika Today" at 6:45 p.m. in Quincy House tomorrow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tanganyikan Sultan to Speak | 4/25/1963 | See Source »

...Sultan, Mr. Patrick Kunambi, is a former member of the Tanganyikan parliament and a founder of the ruling TANU party. At present he is a student and instructor at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tanganyikan Sultan to Speak | 4/25/1963 | See Source »

...opposition to the scheme. Oblivious to Malaya's success against Red infiltration, the Philippines feared that leftists would ultimately take over the new nation, thus putting a Communist neighbor right on their doorstep. Dusting off an old claim to North Borneo, the Philippines maintained that in 1878 the Sultan of Sulu had only "leased," not sold, the territory to the British. London stiffly rejected the Filipino claim to the region...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Malaysia: The Man Who | 4/12/1963 | See Source »

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