Word: sumatra
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Natomas Co. would not seem to be the ideal speculative stock. About 80% of its revenues come from the lackluster shipping industry. With its 37% stake in oil concessions in the ocean off the Indonesian island of Java, and a 68% stake in a concession off Sumatra, the company may yet become an important oil producer. But, as officials of San Francisco-based Natomas concede, no one knows how much oil will be found in either field...
...York Stock Exchange. From an early 1969 low of 34⅛, it climbed to a June high of 130½. In July it fell back into the 70s, then swiftly rebounded. An announcement by company officials that they are "formulating plans" to begin exploratory drilling off Sumatra by year's end sent the stock up 101 points in one day early last week, to 106⅜. It closed Friday at 101⅜−or about 85 times Natomas' 1968 earnings of $1.20 a share...
...orangutan-Malay for "man of the forest"-is badly in need of a helping hand. Once these big red-haired primates (an adult male stands about 5 ft. tall, weighs 150 lbs.) inhabited the jungles of Borneo and Sumatra by the tens of thousands. Today, only 6,000 or so are left. Spreading farms and logging operations have driven the survivors ever deeper into the rain forest; native hunters shoot the mothers and carry off the young orangutans for illegal sale to foreign zoos (price: as much as $4,000 apiece). To save this vanishing Asian cousin of Africa...
...East and Central Java alone, 65,000 persons have been converted. In the Karoland region of North Sumatra, 16,000 have joined Christian churches. Thirty new congregations with a membership of 5,000 have been founded in one section of West Borneo. In Djakarta, 50 new Bible-study groups have sprung up-and so great is the demand for Bibles that a shortage has developed. The U.S. National Council of Churches has launched a drive for $300,000 to help Indonesian Protestants assimilate their new members...
...producer of on-the-spot TV documentaries, Ted Yates always went where the action was. He liked to say that he had been stoned in Sumatra, shot in Laos, charged with bayonets in Java. "You have to stick your neck out a mile," he explained. "That is why this kind of program isn't done very often." His documentaries were taut, full of action, rarely bland. During the fighting in Jordanian Jerusalem, Yates was supervising a camera crew from the doorway of the Intercontinental Hotel. When a volley of firing began, everyone else ducked. Yates, typically, raised his head...