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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...
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...
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.
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...
"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...