Word: canals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although his wife complained during the career-shattering crisis of 1956 that the Suez Canal seemed to cascade through their Downing Street drawing room, Sir Anthony Eden, 64, renewed by his recent peerage (TIME, July 14), was no longer afraid to go near the water. Honoring the bard-blessed stream that runs through his longtime Warwickshire constituency, the ex-Prime Minister selected "Earl of Avon" as his new title. To his son Nicholas, 30, will go a courtesy designation. Viscount of Royal Leamington Spa, to commemorate a last resort that has inspired more dowagers than iambs...
...Though the instruments have a right and a left earpiece, designed to match the forward slant of the doctor's ear canal, some fit so badly that a piece of ear completely shuts off the hole...
Most Arab governments were still annoyed that Kassem had brought on "imperialist" intervention. Nasser allowed a British aircraft carrier and five other warships to pass through the Suez Canal en route to Kuwait without a word of protest, but finally decided he disliked the British more than Kassem. "Kassem is only a bad cold, but British imperialism is a cancer," wrote Nasser's favorite journalist. The U.A.R. forthwith sponsored a Security Council resolution urging an immediate British withdrawal from Kuwait. With support only from Russia and Ceylon, the resolution was defeated...
...lake ports and a slowdown in ore shipments during the recession. But other difficulties are more chronic and basic. Some shippers complain about slow, costly stevedoring at Seaway ports. Others have been discouraged by erratic shipping schedules and time-consuming accidents and stoppages, notably in the Welland Canal, which is the Seaway's Scylla and Charybdis...
...including the U.S. Ben-Gurion replied that he would be willing to take back a few, perhaps 50,000 or so, but only as part of an overall settlement in which the Arab countries would recognize Israel as a nation. Presumably they would let Israeli ships through the Suez Canal and reach an agreement on the Jordan River. Last week, as the texts of the Kennedy letters leaked out, the replies began drifting in from the Arab states, and they were decidedly chilly. The Arab leaders, in more or less the same words, again denied the right of the "socalled...