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Silence. In Denmark, at noon one day, every church bell in the country chimed in unison, and the nation (pop. 4,500,000) marked five minutes of silence (the last occasion was their deliverance from the Nazis). In Montevideo. Uruguay, students burned the Soviet consulate to the ground. In South Viet Nam, all 123 members of the Legislative Assembly paraded through the streets of Saigon, wearing mourning white in sympathy for Hungary. In Reykjavik, Icelanders roughed up a Communist Member of Parliament, and demands rose for a reconsideration of Iceland's decision to eject U.S. forces from the NATO...
...show that the country was open, arctic tundra with scattered patches of silver birch. Sea level was much lower. Peat dredged from the bottom of the North Sea shows that the southern two-thirds of its basin was filled by a chilly swamp connecting Britain with the continent, from Denmark to France...
...their foreign exchange and their funds for industrial development, and generally help to bolster the Indian economy. The agreement assures other free-world countries that they will not be deprived of Indian markets, provides India with enough purchasing power to maintain her normal imports of agricultural commodities from Canada, Denmark and New Zealand. As for the Indians, New Delhi was as cool and silent as Indian officials in the U.S. were vocally grateful. Proclaiming that the agreement would enable India to go ahead with its second five-year plan, Indian Minister to the U.S. Harishwar Dayal also pointed...
Died. Percy MacKaye, 81, white-maned "good grey poet of Gramercy Park," prolific author of masks, verse plays (The Mystery of Hamlet, King of Denmark), poetry, essays and biography; in Cornish...
...recently as 1954, however, Nasser in behalf of Egypt conceded that the canal "is a waterway economically, commercially and strategically of international importance," and expressed "the determination to uphold the convention guaranteeing the freedom of navigation of the canal signed at Constantinople on 29th of October, 1888." * Australia, Ceylon, Denmark, Egypt, Ethiopia, France, Great Britain, Greece, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Italy, Japan, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Pakistan, Portugal, Soviet Union, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, U.S., West Germany...