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Undeserving Battleground. Throughout the week Arkansas' Democratic Congressman Brooks Hays, who had engineered the Newport meeting with President Eisenhower in all good faith, worked tirelessly on Faubus. Said Mrs. Hays: "Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night and find Brooks wide awake, thinking things out." Said Hays: "I felt like the sparrow that flew into the badminton game." Hays spent two hours with Faubus on Monday, four more on Tuesday, three on Wednesday and one on Thursday...
...find the Hays efforts simply hilarious; time after time his raucous laughter boomed out of the second-floor study where he was conferring with Hays. For his own part, Brooks Hays could not see the humor of the situation. Said he: "Arkansas does not deserve to be this battleground-no, we surely don't. This should have been fought in a state where there was genuine feeling on the subject of race...
SYRIA sits at such a vital crossroads-between Europe, Africa and Asia-that the traffic through it has always been heavy, and its inhabitants have never had much chance for peace and quiet. Often a battleground, usually under foreign occupation, the area has no indigenous name; the word Syria was adopted by the Greeks to describe the rich, wide crescent stretching from the Mediterranean to the Euphrates...
...honey, abundant its oil and all fruit are on its trees." But Syria's early inhabitants-predominantly Semites-got little chance to enjoy the oil and honey. Around 2000 B.C. they were conquered by Hammurabi, the great lawgiver of Babylon; later their homeland was a perennial battleground for the Hittites and the Egyptians. Then Sennacherib the Assyrian "came down like the wolf on the fold," to be followed over the centuries by Nebuchadnezzar, the Persians, Alexander the Great and, finally, in 64 B.C., Pompey...
...dictatorship, the Cabinet is a battleground where the chief predators of the regime establish their power positions and fight off attacks and incursions by others. The backbiting is likely to be bitterest as the body politic nears the point of exhaustion. In Spain, which is facing a major economic crisis as a result of 20 years of political mismanagement and economic neglect, Cabinet meetings during the past six months have been getting rougher and tougher; Monarchists boldly attacked the Falange Party, the Falangists demanded complete control of the state apparatus, and church representatives quietly plugged Christian Democracy. Two weeks...