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Back in Batavia, however, another influential Indonesian leader, Sultan Hamid II of Pontianak in Borneo, was not so sure of his countrymen's ability to check the Communist tide in Asia. "Communism," he said, "is the greatest danger for us here." The Sultan urged U.S. aid to help the U.S.I, to its feet; he indicated that for such aid America might well be permitted to have troops and bases in Indonesia...
Married. Sidi Muley Hassan ben el Mehedi, 42, Caliph of Spanish Morocco; and Princess Lal-La Fatima Zohora Bent Muley, 22, British-educated, tradition-flouting (she never covers her face, Moorish fashion) daughter of the late Sultan of Morocco; each for the first time (his concubines do not count); in a three-week-long, $600,000 ceremony financed by the Spanish government (Franco gave the newlyweds a $200,000 home); in Tetuan, Spanish Morocco...
Most of you know that TIME conducts a serious and continuing program to interpret to our advertisers, the market that TIME reaches. Occasionally, as a change of pace, we tell our story via an unstatistical brochure like The Sultan's Choice, some excerpts from which are reproduced here in the hope that you will have fun with them...
...Sultan's Choice is a reminder of the fact that TIME is the favorite-'and first-choice-magazine of a lot of people. The Sultan may also serve to remind the thousands of veteran travelers among you that wherever you go this summer you will find the current issue of TIME on most of the world's newsstands...
Blonde Cinemactress Virginia Mayo, 26, appeared to two men to be the answer to a problem. "The Sultan of Morocco told [her] that she was for him the most striking proof of God's existence," said the Rev. A. J. Long, 29-year-old bachelor pastor of Britain's Southwark Unitarian Church. "Why not?" mused Pastor Long. "The beauty of woman is a revelation...