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...told a group of Air Force officers in Manhattan. As he reminisced about his service in Washington, the American Broadcasting Company's new vice president for news recalled that "President Eisenhower went for seven straight weeks before receiving a question on Suez"-at a time when the 1956 Canal crisis was making headlines every week. What is more, said Hagerty, reporters are wrong in thinking that the conference belongs to them: "It belongs to the President. He can hold it in Madison Square Garden or a telephone booth." Added Pierre Salinger's predecessor: "Freedom of the press...
...born three years later). Young Bob was an early reader, fast with figures but sickly, and he was 15 before he showed signs of wanting to break out of the protective parental eggshell. He did: he went to sea as an ordinary hand, traveled once through the Panama Canal, once to the Orient and four times to Hawaii...
...mixed. The Aswan Dam is under construction; Egypt's staple product, cotton, was bought up on world markets in record quantities last year. Russia has provided $170 million for industrial development, as well as $377 million for the dam (v. the U.S.'s $120 million). The Suez Canal is doing better business than ever: revenues are up $50 million over 1955 to some $150 million. Even so, in a nation whose population has grown by 3,500,000 since Nasser came to power, the birth rate wipes out economic gains: the per capita income remains about...
...decades, Pan American World Airways and W. R. Grace & Co. have brawled through the courts and before the Civil Aeronautics Board over the upbringing of their jointly owned offspring. Pan American-Grace Airways. Reason: Pan Am's stubborn determination to prevent Panagra, which is based in the Canal Zone, from acquiring a direct air route into...
...this hazard is small compared with the value of training Communist-threatened allies in countering the Communists' favorite infiltration tactic. One new project in the works with an eye cocked toward Castro's Cuba: a branch school for counterguerrilla instruction, to be set up in the Canal Zone. By training Latin Americans in the skills of guerrilla warfare, the U.S. hopes to put teeth into President Kennedy's promise "to work with our sister Republics to free the Americas of all foreign domination and tyranny...