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...massive timber gate and electrified barbed-wire fence block the road between Yugoslavia and Albania-respectively, the most accessible and least accessible nations in the Communist world today. Armed guards on the Albanian side open the gate for authorized visitors, then bolt it behind them with a heavy padlock. Last week Roland Flamini of TIME's Vienna bureau, traveling as a "businessman" on a British passport, flew to Dubrovnik in Yugoslavia, where he joined a guided tour that took him to Albania for a two-day visit. His report...
...British prisoner serving a life sentence for murder rises above its origins. The publishers will say nothing about the author, who uses the pen name Zeno (borrowed from the founder of Stoic philosophy), except that at various times he was a sailor, a soldier, a farmer and a timber merchant. More to the point, he was a World War II parachutist with the British 1st Airborne Division, which was trapped and methodically riddled to pieces at the Battle of Arnhem...
...midfields, reshuffled again by Munro, turned in another solid performance. Jim Kilkowski, Tom Nicosia, and Tom Engel, Saturday's second line, each threw in a score, and Marty Cain added one for the first midfield. Sophomore Charley Ames played with Cain and Alan Timber lake on the starting line against Princeton, after starting the season on the third line...
...world production of coffee, third in sugar, corn, cocoa and tobacco. Within the vast solitudes of its mountains, rolling plains, winding rivers and lush, tropical rain forests, it contains the world's largest hydroelectric potential, one-seventh of the world's iron-ore reserves, 16% of its timber and an incalculable wealth of gold, silver, diamonds and other minerals and semi precious stones...
...Hawaiian dark-rumped petrel, the blunt-nosed leopard lizard, the Santa Cruz long-toed salamander and the Col orado River squawfish - to say nothing of the timber wolf, the grizzly bear and the American alligator - may soon go the way of the dinosaur: to extinction...