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Rhapsody in Riches. But Alaska's promise sends statehooders into rhapsody. The oil boom, centered in the Kenai Peninsula, has brought the big U.S. oil companies hurrying north to drill the place full of holes-even though drilling a well there costs almost three times as much as it does at home-and already they have filed for leases on 27 million acres. The timber business racked up $34.3 million in 1957, and that economic youngster is still in short plants. Near Ketchikan, hard by the 16 million-acre Tongass National Forest, is a new, $52½ million pulp...
...advantage Israel got out of the Sinai invasion was to open up its now bustling southernmost port of Elath to the sea, so that its ships could trade with East Africa and Asia while bypassing Nasser's Suez Canal. Invading Israeli armies, routing the Egyptians from the Sinai peninsula, spiked the Egyptian guns placed to menace any vessel seeking entrance from the Red Sea through the narrow, four-mile-wide Strait of Tiran into the Gulf of Aqaba and thence to Elath. Now the U.N. Emergency Force guards the strait and permits Israel "innocent passage" into the gulf, while...
With election day only three weeks off, the fog of political oratory shrouded the Italian peninsula. In one 24-hr, period last week Italy was subjected to no less than 20,000 campaign speeches. To some of the candidates it seemed that the bulk of these had been delivered by a single man: brilliant, persuasive Liberal Party Leader Giovanni Malagodi...
...western end of County Mayo, between Blacksod Bay and the thundering combers of the Atlantic, lies Mullet Peninsula. Here, where Gaelic is spoken from infancy and not learned painfully in the schools, the scanty human population is kept busy propitiating fairies, changelings, merrows, leprechauns, banshees, pookas, cluricaunes, far darrigs, fear-gortas and headless dallahans, who all like to amuse themselves by turning milk sour, making cows break their legs, laming horses, or defying the machine age by overturning tractors and hurling rocks bigger than themselves into machinery...
...baffled inspector passed on his problem to Dublin, and at week's end a representative from the Dail Eireann was hurrying westward. "It's serious enough," he told newsmen, "for there isn't a man on the peninsula who doesn't believe in the little people. But I think if we build the fence around the rath, it might satisfy everyone." A second civil servant was not so sure. "It's bad enough giving the fairies official recognition," he grumbled. "The next thing, they'll be coming in here looking for pensions...