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...Every's pages. Joseph Brant was a sophisticated Mohawk chieftain, who was born in a wigwam but was equally at home in London society. He was perhaps the only Indian leader who fully understood the fatal consequences of Indian disunity. Alexander McGillivray, the son of a Scottish trader and an Indian beauty, became paramount leader of the Creek nation and a diplomatist of genius, who maintained his people's independence long after the other tribes had surrendered...
...Rank dissolved the subsidiary before the film could be produced, and the script vanished into the Rank bank. Richard Burton owns it now, in partnership with a New York producer, and sooner or later Burton intends to commit the story to film, with himself starring as an island trader named Wiltshire...
Wiltshire arrives at Falesá, sets up shop, and is befriended by another white trader who generously provides him with a beautiful native "wife." Both traders offer tinned salmon and washing blue to the natives...
...nobody trades with Wiltshire. His "wife," it turns out, is taboo. Case, the other trader, has craftily skewered him -and there follows an adventuresome confrontation of good and evil as Wiltshire struggles for his existence against this betel-nut Belial who once went to Oxford and who now wears sharks' teeth around his neck and spooks the entire island with his weird, wicked acts and weirder metaphysics. "The ghosts of beautiful women," he says, "fly backwards so that you cannot see the worm marks on their faces...
Some Western manufacturers hope that the U.S.-Soviet nuclear test ban agreement will stimulate more orders from Moscow. Russia is the East's biggest trader, last year exported $1.9 billion to the West, mostly in furs, oil, iron ore and timber; it imported $1.7 billion worth of Western goods, chiefly machinery. To conserve its supply of hard monies, Russia tries to barter whenever possible, and its biggest success so far was sending 82 million bbl. of oil to Italy's state-run E.N.I, in return for large shipments of machinery and a chemical plant that the Italians...