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Underground Wants. Forgotten Buraimi is suddenly a land remembered. Reason: oil, seemingly everywhere under the crust of the Arab peninsula. So far, none has been found within 300 miles. But each side wants to stake its claim...
...last week the New York Times front-paged an answer. "The Eisenhower Administration," reported the Times's Washington Correspondent Anthony Leviero, "is willing to accept a settlement in Korea based on a boundary at the narrow waist of the peninsula." This seemed to mean that the U.S. was ready to give up the U.N.'s declared objective (October 1950) of a "unified, independent and democratic" Korea. Leviero went on to say that the administration wants to persuade the Chinese Communists to stop sending arms to warring comrades in Indo-China in return for a U.S.-French "guarantee that...
...whitewashed mud and thatch huts outside Port-au-Prince's fashionable suburb of Pétionville, he is usually a raffish, cotton-stuffed fellow in sport jacket with a pink boutonniere, a big cigar and harlequin glasses; in remote Basse Guinaudée (pop. 300) on the southern peninsula, he is a rustic with a ragged face and sisal beard...
Died. Clark Lee, 46, war correspondent and author (They Call It Pacific, One Last Look Around), who escaped from Corregidor, covered the Pacific war from start to finish before turning free lance and settling down on Monterey peninsula with his wealthy wife, Hawaiian Princess Liliuokalani Kawananakoa (granddaughter of the late Queen Liliuokalani); of a heart attack; in Pebble Beach, Calif...
Ingalls' favorite teaching job is History 186, The History of Modern India. He tries to see the troubled peninsula, as few Westerners do, from an Indian point of view. "Most people think important to her is to stay out. The antithesis of communism and Democracy is not applicable to India. Her past doesn't presuppose either of them...Indian society is like a spring top, a little above, and some below, but the thickness of the thing comes in the middle...