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Only One New York is a safari through the urban jungle. It was written and faultlessly photographed by Pierre-Dominique Gaisseau, the French explorer who led a 1959 expedition to the head-hunting wilderness of Dutch New Guinea and returned with the remarkable documentary, The Sky Above-The Mud Below. His new film attempts to explore New York City in much the same way. "Never has there been a city in the world like this," glows Gaisseau, as his camera ogles the sheer canyons of lower Manhattan. "It occurs to me that people who expect a bomb to fall...
...Australians, who rule the region as part of their U.N. Trust Territory of New Guinea, first became aware of the "Johnson Cult" last February when thousands of islanders started refusing to pay their $8.43 annual head tax unless the money was placed in a special "Buy Johnson" fund. Before long, $2,475 had been collected for the purpose. But the Australians called it tax evasion and sent police and civilian officials scurrying to the jungle villages to get the money or the delinquents...
...four years, Bauer had 24 malarial attacks), he fought on New Georgia, was hit in the back by shrapnel on Guam. (Years later in New York, Yankee Relief Pitcher Joe Page delighted in picking small pieces of debris out of Bauer's back.) Next came Emirau off New Guinea, then Okinawa. Sixty-four men were in Platoon Sergeant Bauer's landing group on Okinawa; six got out alive. Hank himself was wounded again. "I saw this reflection of sunshine on something coming down. It was an artillery shell, and it hit right behind me." A piece of shrapnel...
...Henry N. Wagner Jr. of Johns Hopkins Hospital became the first human guinea pig to try the "Albumatope" injection on himself. He has since used it, with iodine 131, to get revealing scintillation-scan pictures of 225 patients, with no ill effects. Dr. Taplin himself has now used the technique for more than 150 patients. He employs iodine 125. The safety of the method is attested by the fact that the radiation dose each patient receives is much less than he would get from special chest X rays for this purpose. And the minute amount of radioactive iodine is flushed...
...Africa by Russia and 17 African, Asian and West Indian countries. This week the United Nations' Special Committee on Apartheid will will begin a two-week meeting with the aim of persuading more nations to bar trade with South Africa. The world, says Committee Chairman Diallo Telli of Guinea, faces a choice between "violence on the one hand, economic sanctions on the other" - a threat that black South Africans will ultimately revolt unless economic pressures force the government to change its ways...