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...decisions." no one who finds those decisions unpleasant feels obliged to listen. Three weeks ago. attempting to justify to the House of Commons Britain's failure to consult the U.N., Foreign Minister Selwyn Lloyd called the U.N. "a policeman with both hands tied behind his back." In Canberra last week Australian Prime Minister Gordon Menzies, protesting the exclusion of British and French troops from the U.N. Emergency Force, said with bitter sarcasm: "It won't be easy ... to establish an international force of two battalions to protect Hungary against the Soviet Union, will it? That...
...position as director of the Australian Commonwealth Observatory, on Mount Stromlo near Canberra, will enable to return to his original field of interest. Optical research on the Southern Milky Way has been his special interest since Harlow Shapley brought him to Harvard...
...continuing interest in astronomy he explains as "the satisfying your curiosity, the wanting to know," and at Canberra he will again be seeking knowledge in "the most interesting parts of the sky," for some of the more complex aspects of the Milky Way are only visible in that hemisphere. Much of the thrust of his earlier work had been on the galactic structure and dynamics of the southern Milky...
West of Suez. British twin Canberra jets whistled in from Cyprus to strike at airfields. "I must say that the sooner Egypt sees reason and agrees to temporary international control of the Suez, the less lives will be lost," pronounced General Sir Charles Keightley (rhymes with neatly), C-in-C of the joint Anglo-French operation, from his Cyprus GHQ. The political hope in London and Paris was that airstrikes alone, combined with the Israeli sweep across the Sinai, would persuade Egypt to surrender, or to overthrow Nasser. But the basic military intent was to clear the skies for Anglo...
Sire & Sisu. Saarinen credits his natural competitiveness partly to his Finnish sisu* and the example of his hardworking, hard-playing father. Eliel Saarinen was Finland's No. 1 architect (the Helsinki railroad station and National Museum) and town planner (Helsinki, and Canberra, Australia). He set up headquarters in a romantic, rustic, 38-room retreat which he and his partners built overlooking Hvitträsk (White Lake), 18 miles outside Helsinki. After he married a sister of one of his partners, Sculptress Loja Gesellius, they turned it into a center of crafts and architecture. Among the stream of visitors...