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Hungry Camels. Long dismissed as a desert backwater with scant hope of achieving self-sufficiency, Jordan is astir. Last week 200 enthusiastic students checked in at the new University of Jordan, the country's first. In Amman, the advance wave of a Christmas tide of 25,000 Holy Land tourists gaped at the freshly built Amman Grand Hotel, a ten-story luxury hotel of white stone...
...M.V.P. award was Mantle's third; Roger Maris, who won it in 1960 and 1961, did not get a single vote this year. The National League's most valuable: Dodger Shortstop Maury Wills, who set a major-league record by stealing 106 bases-and won by a scant seven votes over Giant Centerfielder Willie Mays...
History's Guide. By offering their sealed boxes, the Russians were of course conceding nothing of value. Indeed, they gave scant support to the hopeful new thesis now abroad, that Khrushchev after Cuba might take a genuinely new, flexible approach to negotiation of the major East-West issues. Some Westerners excitedly spoke of grasping new opportunities while Moscow was off balance: an access deal for Berlin, perhaps even some kind of German reunification...
Exporting Men. To compete on even terms with industrial Europe, Greek business has to make seven-league strides. Emerging from the devastating war years, Greece had runaway inflation, scant capital resources and a technically innocent labor force. Since the free-enterprising government of Premier Constantine Karamanlis took office in 1954, it has stabilized the drachma and set Greece on the course toward industrialization. The economy is still lopsidedly agrarian. More than half of the 8,400,000 Greeks scratch out a living on uneconomic fruit, tobacco and cotton farms; 8% of the non-farm labor force is jobless...
...technique. Explains Handler: "You get hooked on one and you have to buy the other. Buy the doll and then you buy the clothes. I know a lot of parents hate us for this, but it's going to be around a long time." Parents, in fact, get scant sympathy from the Handlers, whose advertising is admittedly designed to evoke the razor-razor blade urge in children. Says Elliot Handler unapologetically: "We feel it's up to the parents to handle the child...