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This time Britain as a nation did not divide, as it had done at Suez, between those who puffed out their chests in pride and those who lowered their eyes in shame. Many who thought Anthony Eden's war on Nasser a senseless, immoral act regarded last week's moves, even if dangerous, as legal and justified. At week's end the British also landed a 400-man Royal Marine commando at Tobruk, Libya, near Egypt's western border...
Iraq is a rich prize. Once the land of the Garden of Eden and the lush valleys of the Tigris and the Euphrates, it lapsed into centuries of neglect and misrule until oil was discovered. Now the world's sixth-largest oil producer, it has allotted 70% of its revenues in a far-sighted Development Board program to double the country's standard of living in ten years. In seven years, Iraq's per-capita income has advanced from $84 to $140. But this slow progress against immense poverty, illness and illiteracy had to contend constantly with...
Change in Fortune. For Harold Macmillan himself, the trip to Paris was one more indication of a change in his own personal fortunes. In his first year in office, after inheriting Sir Anthony Eden's debacle at Suez, he was regarded by many as a stopgap Prime Minister, grabbed out of the Edwardian era. His debonair manner annoyed as many as it pleased. Three months ago, scarcely a Tory could be found who looked upon his party's future with anything but dread. Insiders respected Macmillan's parliamentary skill, but the image did not get over...
...following weeks Paul Henle, professor of Philosophy at the University of Michigan, will talk on the "Metaphor." George Eden Kirk, associate professor of Political Science at the American University of Beirut, will speak on "The United Arab Republic and the Meaning of Arab Unity." Herold C. Hunt, Charles William Eliot Professor of Education, will discuss "A Look at Education in the USSR." And Albert H. Halsey, lecturer in Sociology at the University of Birmingham, England, will lecture on "English Higher Education...
Cape Cod, always a pleasure playground in the summer, has many outstanding companies, including the Provincetown Players, appearing at the Playhouse on the Wharf. The Players open on July 3 with A Moon for the Misbegotten, and continue through the season with The Climate of Eden (July 14-19), The Family Reunion, Separate Tables (July 28-Aug. 2), The Emperor Jones (Aug. 4-9), The Summer's Treason (Aug. 11-16), and The Millionairess...