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Test of intentions. "A chance for a fresh start," Sir John Harding called it. Before the fresh start could be made, however, the sincerity of E.O.K.A.'s truce proposal had to await a week or two's test. The next step would be for the British to recall Greek Cypriot Leader Archbishop Makarios from his lonely Seychelles Islands exile...
...tense Suez Canal crisis, the U.S. last week took a firm stand for moderation. In one of the most unusual gambles in diplomatic history, the President and the Secretary of State proposed to confront Egypt's President Nasser with the pressures of moral law, then stood back to await the consequences...
...capital, where Vice-President Joao ("Jango") Goulart was entertaining Aramburu; Kubitschek managed to rush from the airport to the final reception for the visiting Argentine. Next day Aramburu sped off to Uruguay for a tumultuous one-day visit before returning to Buenos Aires-and Kubitschek settled down to await the arrival a few hours later of Bolivia's Hernan Siles Zuazo...
...because it is there." The spelunker's incentive is that a cave is never even "there" until it is found and its depths are plumbed and proved. Mountaineering has its classic literature−Annapurna, The White Tower, etc.−but caves, mysterious, magnificent and challenging as mountains, still await their authors. Most Americans best know a cave as the sort of Stygian hole where Mark Twain marooned Becky Thatcher and Tom Sawyer. The society of the cave-wise in the U.S. contains a handful of scientists and spelunkers, most of them active in the National Speleological Society, whose...
...London last week ancient (42) Archie Moore peered curiously for nine sparring rounds at a raw West Indian named Yolande Pompey before calmly knocking him kicking in the tenth to hold on to his light-heavyweight title. This business settled, Archie sat back to await the outcome of a fight he found more interesting: the twelve-round battle in Manhattan between Floyd Patterson and Tommy "Hurricane" Jackson. As Archie-and most of the boxing trade-figured it, the winner would have to fight him in the fall for the heavyweight title, up for grabs since Rocky Marciano retired last April...