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Spruced-Up Façade. What Lord Radcliffe's constitution offered Cyprus was, in fact a façade of self-government carefully designed to preserve what the British in India used to call their paramountcy. The British government declared its readiness to transport a "reasonable" number of Cypriots to the lonely Seychelles Islands to discuss the Radcliffe constitution with Archbishop Makarios, exiled leader of the enosis (union with Greece) movement...
...imaginative sponsors, "Harvard in Houston" would be a good way for the University to discharge any obligation it might feel to expand, while maintaining and improving its existing facilities in Cambridge. The vision, they say, was one of a New Canaan, of the kind of institution that George Ade once said could give a man "everything that Harvard does, except the pronunciation of a as in father...
Behind the somewhat sham façade of force, a deadly serious game of consequences was being played. The Egyptians are in serious trouble over keeping Suez Canal pilots on the job. Right after Nasser took over, the old French company shrewdly offered all foreign pilots a three-year salary guarantee (average: about $11,000 a year) in return for a declaration of loyalty to the company. All but 40 of the 205 skilled navigators are foreigners-including 61 French. 54 British, two Americans. At least two-thirds signed the pledge...
...every building in the area. Saarinen's answer was to show what he meant in his plan for the new design of the U.S. embassy on London's Grosvenor Square by keeping the structure modern but keying the floor levels and spacings of the front façade to the surrounding Georgian buildings. He also got off his mind another pet peeve: that too much modern ages poorly. He designed the embassy in Portland stone, London's traditional building trim which ages to a contrasting rain-washed white and deep, sooty black...
...allowed to play ring-around-a-rosy with the tax collectors. As private capital disappears from the stock market, industrialists fear that they will have to borrow from government-controlled banks instead. The stock market, a major pillar of free enterprise, would thus become an ornamental façade for a socialist economy that is already 40% government-owned. Italian financial leaders have tried to convince the government that a dividend tax levied directly on corporations would be cheaper to collect and harder to dodge. But last week, after a long series of conferences with fellow Ministers, Finance Minister Giulio...