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...Last Roundup. Several weeks ago the Sultan started his final tour-through the Temerloh district in central Pahang, where Communists were still active. Dressed in Bermuda shorts and bright sports shirt, he was greeted by idolizing and contrite villagers. They cried: "Ampun, Tuanku, beribu beribu ampun" (Forgiveness, Your Highness, thousand thousand forgiveness). In each village he warned that his amnesty would end with this tour and urged the villagers to purge themselves of Communists...
...after day! night after night, one sits-amusing oneself as best one can-at a thousand concerts. Every night one hears the same tired instruments making the same tired noises. A cry from the violin, a boom from the drum. For 150 years the only new instruments to be invented are the saxophone, the musical saw, musique concrète and electronic devices. Why? In the United States, of course, there is TV. But what do we French do with our nights...
Wilhelm runs 650 sheep and 51 head of cattle on his four sections and another thousand acres of rented pasture land, a spread that would normally carry from 1,000 to 1,100 sheep and from 125 to 150 cattle. When the drought took hold in earnest back in 1950, Wilhelm played it smarter than some of his neighbors, sold off his herds to prevent overgrazing, used the cash to buy feed for the animals he kept. Today it costs him a money-losing $12 a year to feed each cow, $2 to feed each sheep...
Although maintaining no military forces of its own, Iceland harbors one of the largest NATO air and missile bases containing several thousand NATO troops, hundreds of planes, and large-scale rocket installations. Lying midway between Moscow and New York on the Great Circle air route, the base at Keflavik would be a prime center of operations in the event of general...
...Operating Engineers Union. The incident was described by the U.S. Attorney investigating racketeering in New York industry as "a black effort to intimidate witnesses." Governor Harriman decried the attempt to limit "freedom of speech," and Mayor Wagner called it "shame." The Operating Engineers Union agreed and added another thousand dollars to the growing reward for information leading to the arrest of the unknown assailant...