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...busiest men in West Germany last week were Egyptians. It was their job, in a desperate response to calls for help from Cairo, to comb the Kiel Canal and other German waterways in search of pilots skillful and experienced enough to guide a ship through the Suez. For the one thing Colonel Nasser cannot do without, if he is to run the canal successfully, is pilots. Any day now all but a handful of the pilots needed to keep boats moving may leave their jobs. If they do, and traffic piles up, a new and crucial phase of the Suez...
...cost of research is not the only obstacle. Many industries are cramped by the shortage of scientists. Company interviewing teams comb through the new crop of graduating students each year, and educators complain that only the rejects will be left to teach. Moreover, many potential research men shy away from science because the starting pay in industry ($700 a month for a Ph.D...
...audience watching Nasser's parade of military power, a burly, heavy-faced man in a white suit smiled contentedly and ran a comb through his mop of greying hair. Frozen-Faced Molotov's successor as Soviet Foreign Minister proved a man of many mobile impressions (see cuts). A year ago Dmitry Shepilov came to Cairo as editor of Pravda; a few months later came Nasser's arms deal with the Communists, which set Nasser up in business as a man no longer dependent on the West alone. Now, as Foreign Minister, Shepilov was, back to inspect...
...extravaganza, Forbidden Planet (TIME, April 9). Composed and recorded by Manhattan's husband-and-wife team, Louis and Bebe Barron, it could hardly sound more appropriate. Its basic elements are a kind of trickling-water sound; a zipping effect, as if somebody were running his thumbnail along a comb; a high, ominous thrumming, something like the sound telegraph wires make when the pole is struck; a frightful, featureless roaring; and an effect that repeatedly swoops up to a point of release and then breaks and starts over...
...keep from scratching up their own coiffures. But the most pampered were the poodles. Ch. Wilber White Swan, a tiny (just 6 Ibs.) four-year-old poodle, patiently put up with hours of clipping, shearing, shampooing (with bluing), and. of course, the inevitable, endless bout with brush and comb. Some 70 toy poodles, including eight of Wilber's get, stole the show...