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India's nationalists served notice of a "peaceful" march on Goa in observance of India's Independence Day (Aug. 15). Portugal's scholarly strongman, President Salazar. countered by dispatching a frigate and more troops to reinforce his "Rome of the East...
...Palace outside Teheran, Iran's Finance Minister and a U.S. oil negotiator put their initials on a settlement of the vexed Anglo-Iranian oil dispute. A formula had at last been found by which a combine of eight of the world's largest oil companies (TIME, Aug. 9) will operate Iran's nationalized oil industry, splitting the profits on a 50-50 basis with the Iranian government. "Indeed gratifying," said President Eisenhower. "A major contribution," said the British government...
...weeks Chancellor Konrad Adenauer remained silent about the strange case of Otto John (TIME, Aug. 2), though he knew full well the damage that had been done to the West and to public confidence in his own regime. Last week, speaking to his people by radio, he described John's disappearance into the Soviet zone as "shocking," but he insisted that the former West German security chief had no Western military secrets: "The damage he can cause is not so great as was thought at first." Adenauer freely acknowledged the error in giving so unstable a man so crucial...
AMERICAN AIRLINES, grounded by the strike of its 1,200 pilots (TIME, Aug. 9), struck back with a $1,250,000 damage suit against the Air Line Pilots Association, A.F.L. Strike may spread to United, but Trans World Airlines sidestepped the battle. It ordered its nonstop transcontinental flights to put down in Chicago to refuel and change pilots, thus avoid the cause of the walkout: exceeding an eight-hour limit on flying time for flight crews...
...shrieks and sly gags over the newest look in Paris fashions (TIME, Aug. 9) were beginning to die down last week. As the gasps subsided along Rue du Faubourg-Saint-Honore, and the fashion editors took a second look, they saw that Designer Christian Dior's flat look was not so flat after all. Fewer than a third of Dior's new dresses minimized the bosom, and even these bore no resemblance to the droopy formlessness of the Jazz Age. Most dresses were molded from hipbone to mid-bust, creating a long, svelte torso, a high and undeniably...