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...halted eight ships of other flags on the way to or from Haifa with Israeli cargoes, in defiance of the Constantinople Convention of 1888 and a specific U.N. Security Council ruling. But the log of the steamer Panaghia had the grimmest story to tell. Laden with 520 tons of cement for Eilat, the Greek ship under charter to Israel sailed from Haifa on May 24, commanded by brawny Veteran Skipper Kosta Koutales, and manned by a crew of ten. Next day, in routine order, it dropped anchor in Port Said to await permission to pass through the canal. Far from...
...Anybody who goes for barter deals is out of his mind," said Burma's ex-Premier U Nu-and he should know. Burma's Rangoon docks were still overflowing with the bartered Iron Curtain cement it could not use (TIME, May 21). Originally Burma thought that it had at least got a good price for its surplus rice-only to find that the Soviet Union was upping the prices of the goods it sent in exchange. All this was demoralizing enough. Last week Burma came face to face with another unsettling discovery: it really had no surplus rice...
...ruling Socialists. "Interference of the most brazen kind," a top Burmese neutralist called it. The Burmese have also had their business disenchantments with their cynical Communist trading partners. Despite fine promises of the latest machinery and steel, all the Russians ever sent them in barter for their rice was cement-so much cement that all Rangoon could not hold it. and vast quantities of it were ruined on the docks by monsoon rains (TIME, May 21). Most insulting of all, the Russians and Chinese began selling off their Burmese rice in Burma's own best markets. Said...
...told police: "She just flew into a fit of wifely affection." An Ounce of Prevention. In Baytown, Texas, Mrs. Daniel E. Ellis took her husband for a drive while he was recuperating from a heart attack, lost control, bounced down a steep embankment, crashed into a truck and a cement mixer at the bottom, was uninjured but had to return her husband to the hospital for treatment of lacerations, explained: "I was driving to relieve him of any physical strain." Intermezzo. In Los Angeles, Mrs. Mary Feynman won a divorce after testifying that her physicist husband's Congo drums...
...recent articles evoked a certain perplexity among the natives of Loma. As Editor Miller tells it: "TIME has brought news of the world to our remote African door. TIME articles have been given recognition in our publication. For example, your very newsworthy story about the trade of rice for cement in Burma (TIME, May 21) met with stupendous lack of sympathy in this rice-conscious, rice-loving part of the world. No Loma man would even consider trading rice for cement...