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...Beset by the possibility that the Iraqi antagonism to him might spread to his own unhappy northern province of Syria, Nasser traveled one day to an aluminum army hut hurriedly set up on the border between Syria and Lebanon. There, protected by tanks and antiaircraft guns, he met Lebanon's President Fuad Chehab for the first time. Reported gist of their agreement: Chehab would back Nasser in his dispute with Iraq if Nasser guaranteed that he would not try to incorporate Lebanon into his United Arab Republic...
Along with all the other problems that beset the motorist the world over, drivers in Holland have one added hazard to contend with: the canals. An average of two cars a day slip their brakes, back into or otherwise plunge into the country's famed waterways. Last year, 100 drivers and passengers drowned before help arrived...
...Beset by poor health and one crisis after another, Lennox-Boyd plans to retire from politics soon, join the family business brewing Guinness Stout...
...German generals from nightclubs by playing fumble-thumbed jazz on a piano backed up by a Vichy French clarinetist, an English bass man, and a West African drummer. He caught on with the Chronicle in 1950, now lives with his wife and three children in a red-shingled house beset by his 3,000-album record collection, which grows and coils from room to room. As he listens and listens, he hammers out the beat on a pad with drumsticks. Gleason insists that the jazz town of San Francisco is a better listening post than New York: "Here...
...want to consider all the dark horses, the field still includes the halfdozen mentioned at mid-season-B.C., B.U., Clarkson, Harvard, R.P.I. and St. Lawrence--plus two newcomers, Dartmouth and Yale. Key upsets along the way have beset the contenders, but the race still boils down to these eight...