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Item: Morocco still boiled, despite French moves to create what they called "a free sovereign state" that would be permanently tied to France by an act of "interdependence." The toll since Aug. 20: about 3,000 dead, thousands more wounded...
Doing Too Much? To reduce demand ?and hold down prices?Rab Butler has twice tightened up on British credit facilities (TIME, Aug. 29). So far all his maneuverings have met with little success. "We are trying to do too many things at once," said Prime Minister Eden last week. "Better roads, modernized railroads, more houses, new power stations to develop nuclear power . . . maintaining our armed forces for service on many continents . . . equipping them with modern weapons?there is nothing to criticize in any of these aims, but they cannot all be met at once. Some must be restrained...
PRIVATE POWER is hoping to score another victory in the Northwest. Following the Federal Power Commission's decision in favor of Idaho Power Co.'s three-dam plan for Hell's Canyon (TIME, Aug. 15), Pacific Northwest Power Co. (a combine of four companies) asked FPC for licenses to build at Mountain Sheep and Pleasant Valley, some 30 miles downstream from Hell's Canyon on the Snake River...
Ulysses. The Homeric legend made (in Italy) into a foaming saga of sea adventure; with Kirk Douglas, Silvana Mangano (TIME, Aug...
...Camera. A nymph's regress in Christopher Isherwood's Berlin; Julie Harris, at both hooch and cootch, is a omic sensation (TIME, Aug...