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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nearly two months after their arrest on charges of currency black-marketing (TIME, Aug. 24 et seq.), four U.S. sergeants stationed at NATO's southeastern headquarters in Turkey had their fourth brief hearing in an Izmir court. For the third straight session the prosecution failed to produce its chief witnesses against them. With a show of bland indifference, the presiding judge adjourned the trial for another nine days...
...Unveiling. Inaugurator and chief manipulator of Afghanistan's profitable "positive neutrality" is tough, bald Prime Minister Mohammed Daoud, 50. Cousin to Afghanistan's figurehead King Mohammed Zahir Shah, Daoud took over as Prime Minister six years ago, deals with everything from high policy to trivial administrative details. Hard-working and ironfisted, he is quick to jail even his own Cabinet ministers if they step out of line...
...their anxiety to impress, Mao and his minions had made some eye-catching changes in Peking that were sure to evoke oohs and ahs from their hundreds of foreign guests, chief of whom will be Nikita Khrushchev. In the last nine months, the Reds have thrown up a spanking new Peking railroad station, capable of handling 200,000 passengers a day, and they boast that they are erecting enough other buildings to give the capital a total of 398 million sq. ft. of new floor space-more than 14 times that of all the office buildings put up in Manhattan...
General Maxwell Davenport Taylor, 58, retired Army Chief of Staff, flew from New York City to Mexico City and foreign residence as board chairman of Mexican Light & Power Co. Ltd., a Canada-incorporated utility that supplies about a third of Mexico's electric power. Same day, another Army notable, 2nd Lieut. Pete Dawkins, 21, West Point's most acclaimed all-round cadet (first captain of cadets, '58 football captain, '59 class president, "Star" man in scholarship) since Douglas MacArthur, headed for two-year expatriation in England, where as a Rhodes scholar he will study at Oxford...
...William Edmund Ironside), 79, burly (6 ft. 4 in., 250 Ibs.) British general who won a chestful of decorations in half a century of fighting far and wide for the Empire, commanded a daring but futile expedition (1918-19) against the Bolsheviks at Archangel, served briefly (1939-40) as Chief of the British Imperial General Staff; of a heart attack; in London. Lord Ironside could speak 16 languages, once posed for two years (1900-02) as a Boer in the German army in Southeast Africa, so impressed his Prussian superiors that the young spy was awarded the German Military Service...