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...about a fifth of this old Almoravide empire. The remainder of the area is divided between Spain's Rio de Oro, a corner of Algeria, the huge French West African province of Mauritania, and a chunk of the French Sudan reaching a few hundred miles north of legendary Timbuktu. Except for the coastal strip it is sun-scorched desert, rich in minerals, which the French, since they finally subdued the tribes in 1934, have mapped but have hardly tapped...
...copies of the first volume of his memoirs in Kansas City, Harry S. Truman visited Mississippi's Gulf Coast. Asked if the second volume of his reminiscences, to be published next February, will stir up any fuss, jaunty Author Truman grinned: "I might have to go live in Timbuktu...
...fatter pensions, lower taxes, better medical benefits - but did not say how it would pay for them without landing Australia in another inflationary cycle. Neither party gave much thought to Australia's foreign policy. Said the Sydney Morning Herald in disgust: "Indo-China might be as remote as Timbuktu." Yet Communism may have been the issue that kept Bob Menzies in power. The arrest of MVD Agent Vladimir Petrov and the rescue of his wife (TIME, April 26) gave the Liberals a readymade chance to revive their hoary cry: that Evatt and his party are on the same side...
...pushover. Among the ten congressional members (total membership: 17) are some of the most powerful anti-free traders in Congress, e.g., Republican Congressmen Dan Reed and Richard Simpson, G.O.P. Senators Bourke Hickenlooper and Eugene Millikin, men who still think the Ruhr is just as far from Chicago as Timbuktu...
From Tallahassee to Timbuktu, they set the fashion in clothes, kisses, hairdos and seduction. For years, they were adored more fervently than Cleopatra or Jenny Lind. For years, they ruled the dreams of the world...