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...little danger that cholera will spread into Western Europe or the U.S., where sanitation is good and ample medical care available. But they are concerned that the disease may spread southward into Africa or westward into South and Central America. Their concern may well be justified. The government of Guinea last week reported that an unidentified intestinal illness has hospitalized 230 people in the country's capital of Conakry. The disease, which sounds suspiciously like cholera, has already killed 27 others...
Throughout his career, Salazar spoke proudly of his little country as "a great colonial power" and clung stubbornly to the remnants of the Portuguese Empire. For eight years, he conducted a series of wars against black nationalist guerrillas in his African colonies of Angola, Mozambique and Portuguese Guinea. He never visited the colonies, however, promising to go to Angola "only when the last terrorist has been dominated or expelled...
...from $1,510 to $4,565 to visit the Galapagos Islands, where Charles Darwin once pondered the origin of species. Los Angeles' Hemphill Travel Service offers a" 32-day round-the-world tour for 60 people flying in a chartered Convair 990 with stops in Copenhagen, Malagasy. New Guinea and other lands. The fare is $9,960. Lindblad Travel. Inc., which spec;alizes in the exotic, has organized tours to Easter Island and the Ross Sea area of the Antarctic. In the works now is a cruise to the Seychelles, "the forgotten islands" in the Indian Ocean. Some customers...
Seeking the answer, the scientist set up an experiment in which he eagerly served as a guinea pig. After each daily shave with an electric razor, he meticulously collected and weighed the amount of hair that had been removed. He also devised a zero-to-five scale for rating each day's activities-including mental and physical exertion, degree of nervousness, amount of sleep and occurrence of intercourse...
...pieces in the show (which is just finishing a four-week stand in Sacramento before moving on to San Diego) include an ancient Egyptian portrait statue in granite, a group of Chinese jade animals, a bronze rooster from the Guinea Coast of Africa, Renaissance statuettes, two wooden saints from 16th century Flanders and a 19th century neoclassical Italian marble Venus. None is too large to be held between two hands, and all were selected for the various textures of their surfaces...