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Hammarskjold will have to obtain a meaningful agreement without arousing Nasser's pique, so that a satisfactory settlement will be established. What is needed to balm the egos on both sides as well as providing efficient administration is an international control board that will leave legal sovereignty with Nasser, but will prevent him from backing out on his financial obligations or restricting canal use. Because of his eagerness to get the money, the Egyptian dictator would probably allow a genuinely neutral control board so long as he gets revenues and can point to Suez as Egypt's property...
...curious melange of Hindu theology, "existential" philosophy, and Anne Morrow Lindburgh euphemy, Jiddu Krishnamurti offers a spiritual balm for the "issue confronting all of us." In his attempt to free the self from a changing and complex world-entanglement, Krishnamurti maintains the absolute necessity of tranquility and of the present as a base for realization...
...whom arrived with mutilated limbs and filthy, blood-caked wounds. Some reached the aid stations by sampan, some by oxcart; others were carried on relatives' shoulders or in a hammock slung from a bamboo pole. Accustomed to no more sophisticated medical treatments than massage, bamboo cupping or tiger balm, they were reluctant to wash the dirt off a wound. Some had shaved their heads, refused to bathe, or relied on other traditional "remedies." But all wanted the reputedly powerful medicines from the West. Said a Thai nurse: "When you start a distribution of medicine, everybody must get something...
Gauvreau's staff ghosted byline stories by golddiggers. gigolos and bootleggers to keep his growing readership titillated with "heart balm" suits, gang wars and midnight revelries. Typical headline: HE BEAT MEI LOVE HIM. When a young mother walked into his office, introducing herself as Nan Britton and her child as the late President Harding's illegitimate daughter, Gauvreau splashed her story. He got the jump on Lindbergh's arrival in Paris before the plane had even been sighted in Ireland by taking a chance on printing and distributing 50,000 papers plastered with the photo...
Down with the Phalanx. For Tamayo, a proud Mexican and fullblood Zapotec Indian, such success is sweet balm for long years of struggle in Manhattan and of official ostracism in his own city. Outside Mexico Tamayo has in recent years won a hatful of international awards, including a $5,000 first prize at Sāo Paulo's 1953 biennial, a second in last year's Carnegie International (but not the Barcelona Biennial grand prize, which Tamayo turned down, later explaining: "I am not on good terms with Mr. Franco"). At home Tamayo, outspokenly antiCommunist, has been...