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From Tokyo to Tennessee, from the Baltic to the Bosporus, a killer winter raged across many parts of the world last week. Blizzards and savage winds took 300 lives in Europe, and another 150 in the U.S. A slashing gale capsized a ferry in the Korea Strait, causing 137 deaths, and an avalanche in the mountains of north central Japan entombed 19 persons. The thermometer was playing tricks. While Moscow's temperature was 11°, the mercury plummeted to fantastic depths in a broad swath across the U.S.: -19° in Cleveland, -30° in parts of Kentucky...
...snowbound communities in the Italian Apennines were cut off from their supplies. Three feet of snow covered Bulgaria, and in Greece army units roamed the countryside with hay for starving livestock. Ice clogged both the Mississippi and the canals of Venice; a blizzard snapped a power cable in the Bosporus, halting all shipping between the Mediterranean and the Black Sea. Along the frozen Danube, Yugoslav dynamite crews blasted lanes for boats and barges...
...rising tide of Arab nationalism and the intense competition from the newest fields. The development of France's Saharan oil fields (TIME, Aug. 17) will cut into the European market for Mideast oil; in addition, Russia is shipping oil not only into Western Europe, but through the Bosporus into Egypt and North Africa. For these reasons, new oil concessions are being granted all over the Middle East. Examples: ¶ In Yemen the American Overseas Investment Corp. was exploring a 10,000-sq.-mi. concession in the northwestern coastal plain. It had beaten out the Japanese and the Italians...
First Comedian: But that's just the trouble. It's thinking about high rent, the rising prices of cheese, meat, butter, raki and cigarettes that makes me want to jump into the Bosporus...
First Comedian: I feel so terrible, I think I'll jump into the Bosporus...