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...Your story on Rockefeller's Hawaii hotel contains an error. Mauna Kea is not the tallest island mountain in the world. Mounts Idenburg, Wilhelmina, Juliana and Wilhelm in New Guinea are all higher, and Idenburg is the highest...
...skins," wrote a Polish poet in praise of the Congo rebellion. In fact, Red witchcraft is doing poorly in Africa. The only African country under outright Communist domination is the former colony of Congo-Brazzaville. Through hamhanded diplomacy and sloppy technology, the Russians alienated two of their likeliest converts, Guinea's Sekou Toure and Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah. China, usually more subtle in its subversive techniques, has also managed to stomp on African toes. Peking's men in Burundi were thrown out early this year after a Chinese subversion campaign that was climaxed by the assassination...
...Celebes, to Yapese, spoken on the tiny U.S. trusteeship island of Yap. Most of them require awkward circumlocutions to express Catholic dogma. In pidgin English for example, God is "Bigfellow master too much who bosses heaven and ground." Even more bothersome is the primitive Enga language of the New Guinea mountains. In trying to translate the "Hail Mary" prayer, explains one missionary, "we found that if a group of men wanted to greet a group of women working in the field, they wouldn't say 'Good morning' but 'We are going to Wabag and the women...
...Nero Over Me." Born in 1903 near Chillicothe, Ohio, Beatty raised rabbits, guinea pigs and skunks as a boy, at 15 responded to the lure of the circus by signing up as a $3-a-week helper. His goal was to be an acrobat, until he twisted an ankle, got a chance to fill in on a polar bear act ("a bear will bite you ten times to a big cat's one"), and began his career as an animal trainer...
...without Boumedienne's unwavering support, Ben Bella in recent months had decided to get rid of the army men in his Cabinet. One reason may have been Ben Bella's anger at the army's point-blank refusal to send "liberation" troops to the Congo, Portuguese Guinea and Israel-as proposed by the President. In any event, the first officer to be ousted, he decided, would be Foreign Minister Abdel Aziz Bouteflika, a former F.L.N. commissar under Boumedienne and a close friend of the army commander. Then, after his hoped-for personal triumph at the Afro-Asian...