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Into this storybook East comes plucky Susan Hayward, thrusting her determined chin at consular aides, British policemen and inscrutable Chinese who do not seem sufficiently eager to drop everything and help search for her husband (Gene Barry) behind the Bamboo Curtain. As someone defensively points out, her husband-a scoop-minded magazine photographer-knew he was taking a considerable chance when he crossed the Red border without a visa and loaded down with cameras...
...Athens 4,000 banner-waving Greek students flowed through the streets, shouting against not only the British but the Americans as well. They tried to storm the U.S. embassy. On Cyprus four days later, students staged noisy protest marches in several cities, stoned U.S. consular buildings, clashed with tear-gas-throwing police and British Tommies. The U.N. had just voted (with U.S. support) to table Greece's claim to the strategic British island fortress of Cyprus...
...after years of foreign duty, a U.S. consular official came to Jefferson, Ohio to visit his brother, the famed author and editor, William Dean Howells. When he appeared on the streets wearing shorts, a pith helmet and an air of inscrutable mystery, he was nothing less than a sensation. One of those who was dazzled was Loy Wesley Henderson, the 14-year-old son of Jefferson's Methodist minister. He was disappointed to learn that the mysterious stranger was not an explorer (young Henderson had just finished reading Stanley's account of his adventures in Africa...
...Very little general benefit," concludes Hedley V. Cooke, a veteran of the U.S. consular service in Turkey and Palestine, writing in the current Middle Eastern A/fairs. "Large foreign investments have not yet stimulated any cooperative economic planning for the good of the entire region...
...Gubser proposals would remove the unnecessary restrictions on acceptable men. The first calls for a prompt review by the Consular officer of any temporary visa for a technological, teaching, or scientific purpose. This is aimed at doing away with the present damaging delays...