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...Ibis, a rare bronze variety of Threskiornis aethiopica, has been missed before but never for so long a time. American Airlines pilot Edwin Walter, who saw the bird winging westward over the Golden Gate as he was preparing to land, said "it looked happy though homesick." Walter took several photographs of it from a cockpit window...
Fast Development. Straddling Europe and Asia, Turkey was 300 years behind the industrial countries until Kemal Ataturk lowered the veil and started pointing its face westward after World War I. Since then, Turkey has narrowed the gap to 30 years, at least in its cities. On the surface, this big, potentially rich but long-neglected land looks as if it is striding rapidly toward industrial revolution. Ten dams are rising in the abundant streams and rivers that feed the Tigris and Euphrates, those watering founts of ancient civilization. Going up on the Black Sea coast at Eregli...
...Kill . . . Kill." Moderate, Westward-leaning Premier Cyrille Adoula desperately wants the U.N. to stay, is considering a personal appeal to the General Assembly as a last resort. With elections scheduled for next spring, the Congo's old extremists are lurking in the wings. Egide Davidson Bocheley, partisan of the erratic late Premier Patrice Lumumba, outlined his national policy recently at a press conference: "Kill Adoula! Kill [President Joseph] Kasavubu! Chase out the Americans!" Tshombe, relaxing in Spain after treatment for eye trouble and amoebic dysentery, has assured friends that he plans an active part in the campaign...
Ship-line executives concede that the rate schedule is "unscientific." But American President Lines Chief George Killion argues that the differentials on the Pacific are justified, because almost six times more cargo goes westward than eastward, and as a result there is hot competition between carriers for the small-scale eastbound Pacific freight. To Senator Douglas, this argument only proves that the conferences are cartels that hike their rates when effective competition is absent...
Next job was to spin the satellite so that its radio antenna would point at the earth. Other peroxide jets were fired and the antenna swung toward its target. The movement also increased the satellite's westward drift, and at midweek Syncom II was over Africa, oscillating back and forth across the equator in a lazy figure eight...