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Interpol has just formally opened its new eight-story HQ in the fashionable Paris suburb of Saint-Cloud. Equipped with a 50-ft. rooftop antenna, the streamlined building contains a massive communications center linking member countries by radio, Telex and Teletype. Key to this network, which handled 118,000 messages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Police: Global Beat | 6/9/1967 | See Source »

Through Interpol, police the world over can trace a Bombay jewel thief with a dozen aliases and passports, study the latest research on police use of helicopters, learn how Lebanon is persuading farmers to grow sunflowers instead of hashish-or call on the FBI's monumental files of 184...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Police: Global Beat | 6/9/1967 | See Source »

But in Western Europe these days, planes are getting increasing competition from the oldfashioned, earthbound railroad train. Across the Continent, a spreading network known as the Trans Europe Express is holding its own in the jet age - and teaching its passengers to expect luxury while they travel.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Railroads: Luxury on the Track | 6/2/1967 | See Source »

Even Babies. The last time Dick Nix on ventured into Latin America, as Vice President in the spring of 1958, mobs of Communist-led students rained stones and spittle on him in Lima and Caracas, screaming "Death to Nixon!" Last week, as a private citizen returning to the relatively more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Around the World, A Block Away | 5/19/1967 | See Source »

"Boozing Brutes." The son of a country lawyer, Masefield wrote roistering early verses peppered with adventures that he had packed into his teens. He went to sea as a cook, rose to the rank of master mariner, and sailed around Cape Horn. He went to the U.S., where he crossed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Britain: Piping Down | 5/19/1967 | See Source »

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