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...although he stayed ten years, he found no cure, but he found a cause. He became a lay missionary in the Anglican Church in Japan and devoted himself to helping other leprosy victims. In March 1927, at the age of 35, he made his way to jungle-like Motobu Peninsula on northern Okinawa because he had heard fearful tales of the misery of Okinawa's leprosy sufferers...
...Fish Creek, Wis. is the home of the three-year-old Peninsula Festival, buried among the lakeside evergreens in Door County, 65 miles northeast of Green Bay. Conductor Thor Johnson (of the Cincinnati Symphony) gathers an orchestra of 40 standout musicians for two weeks (beginning Aug. 6). All nine concerts include unfamiliar or contemporary works, and usually play to full houses...
...Imam of Yemen failed to inspire one of Edward Lear's famous limericks, it was only because Lear never heard of him. To this day little is known about this Moslem kingdom, the size of Nebraska, at the southern tip of the Arabian peninsula. That is the way Yemen's despotic ruler, the Imam Saif el Islam Ahmed, wants it. He bars foreigners and does everything he can to keep out of print. But last week there was print without stint: there had been a revolt against the Imam of Yemen. Tough Iraq-trained Colonel Ahmed Thalaya, mindful...
...child, Hashim played on the courts at the officers' club in Peshawar, and by the time he was ten, he was neglecting school and spending lunch money for court fees. Soon he was the best pro in the Indian peninsula, and four years ago modest Hashim Khan was persuaded to compete in England. The Royal Pakistan Air Force put up the money. In 1951 he won all of Britain's major tournaments, and (except for one default) he has won them every year since...
North America's only known deposits of tin in commercial quantities are on Alaska's Seward Peninsula. Looking for a domestic tin source, the U.S. has laid out $2,894,576 in loans and loan guarantees to develop the low-grade (.4%) ore of the Lost River mine, 40 miles east of Siberia. Last week the Joint Congressional Committee on Defense Production, headed by Indiana's Senator Homer Capehart, issued a chilly report indicating that the U.S. was taken in by some cool customers...