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...Cairo the Soviet Union led the parade of governments extending formal recognition to Nasser's new regime. At the U.S. Damascus embassy, due for downgrading to consulate general, an aggressive local enterprise tacked a notice on the bulletin board: "All sizes of packing trunks. Call Mrs. Kobbani." Under the solvent of Arab nationalism, the old lines were fading on the map of the Middle East; Cairo and Baghdad would resume struggles almost as old as the Euphrates and the Nile, but along new frontiers...
...Just lately there have been numerous cases of parents bringing their babies for baptism aged a year or even 18 months. This is entirely wrong and contrary to the church's teaching." So, in his parish bulletin, writes the Rev. Horace Willson, Anglican rector of St. Mary's Church of Rosettenville in Johannesburg, South Africa. "It is only reasonable to expect a child twelve months of age to be frightened and resist the priest's attempts to pour water over its head. Some of the recent administrations could be likened to an all-in wrestling match, with...
Perhaps the strongest voice on the pro-Churchill side was that of James Rorimer. director of Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art, who broke his museum's general policy against one-man shows to schedule the exhibition. Writes Rorimer in his museum bulletin: "Think how eager we would be to see the paintings of an Alfred the Great, were they to be discovered tomorrow...
...Some of A.P. Stringer Morris Rosenberg's early copy went out by phone in Yugoslav. At 2:30 a.m. Thursday, United Press Correspondent Joseph Taylor, 31, sent the first wire-service flash on the government's fall in pidgin French. By the time A.P. filed its first bulletin at 3:08 a.m., Taylor's English-language story had been cleared by censors and was clacking over the teletypes. Though phone calls were monitored, the censors concentrated on the Caracas-New York lines. Thus the New York Herald Tribune's Caracas stringer was able to relay developments...
...rocket-to-the-moon got a big early-morning play on radio newscasts, but its short life began after U.S. morning newspapers had gone to press, ended before afternoon papers started rolling. More than seven hours after its first moon-rocket bulletin, the U.P. mentioned the teleprinter theory among others, concluded later: "It was anybody's guess." Said a British engineer quoted by the A.P.: "We get strange noises constantly. A noise might be a hair dryer in Cornwall...