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...Conquest by Negotiation Life in Shangri-La was never quite so dreamlike as life in Laos since that country became an independent nation 2½ years ago. With the French no longer directing its political life, the unwarlike people of this Buddhist kingdom in the interior of the Indochinese peninsula relapsed into their old hedonist ways. Though Laos is practically roadless, well-to-do Laotians bought Mercedes cars and Italian scooters (with U.S. and French aid), built showy riverside houses, idled their days away in the pagoda gardens listening to Panpipe music and watching the graceful Thai dances...
...Bradley to the crowd. "You don't expect me to hit the ball after that, do you?" asked the general. The routine was the same for all players. Daytime: a round on the lovely, exclusive course at Cypress Point, a crack at the demanding layout of the Monterey Peninsula Country Club, and then, for the pairs with the 40 best 36-hole scores, a playoff at Pebble Beach. Evening: a round of the parties that brightened every clubhouse and properly stocked private home from Carmel to Cannery...
...soon get another important fuel supply-natural gas. In Washington the Federal Power Commission handed down permission for Texas Wheeler-Dealer Clint Murchison to hook his Coastal Transmission Corp. into Houston Texas Gas & Oil Corp., build a $150 million pipeline system to supply gas everywhere along the fast-growing peninsula...
...Most popular theory is that Sinai is Jebel Musa (Mount of Moses), an impressive 8,000-ft. of granite in the southern end of the Sinai peninsula. Part of the Greek monastery of St. Catherine there dates back to 330 A.D., indicating how old the tradition is. But to get to Jebel Musa, Moses would have had to lead his people through the Egyptian copper and turquoise mines in the area...
Last week, after a conference with 100 rabbis, Minister Cahane and Scholar Mazar were planning an expedition into the Sinai peninsula to seek evidence that would back up their theory. But the Israeli army was in no mood to wait for the archaeologist's word. Last week a jeep-borne band of soldiers barreled down from their base in the Sinai peninsula to Jebel Musa. There they climbed the 737 steps in the sheer rock to plant the Israeli flag where they were sure that Moses talked to God. At the nearby monastery of St. Catherine they picked...