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...West moved swiftly last week to take a new partner into its "northern tier" of Middle East defenses. Stopping over in Baghdad on his way back from Bangkok, Britain's Anthony Eden suggested to Iraq's Premier Nuri es-Said that Britain is ready to join the Turkish-Iraqi alliance and to replace the expiring Anglo-Iraqi pact with a new association . . . in line with those which already exist with Turkey and other partners in NATO. " Britian's connection with Iraq is oil, which is Baghdad's chief source of revenue: $100 million a year...
...Iraqi treaty quickly became fact. Iraq's 67-year-old Premier Nuri es-Said, who was an officer in T. E. Lawrence's World War I desert army against the Turks, pushed the treaty through Iraq's parliament. Turkey's National Assembly ratified it unanimously. Since Turkey is a member of NATO, Iraq became the first of the Arab League states to join the pro-Western chain of alliances...
Getting its R.O.T.C. students ready for active duty after graduation, the University of Wyoming has not neglected their wives and fiancées. Last week, 22 young women turned out to hear a guest specialist, Mrs. Dorothy Irwin, wife of retired Brigadier General C. L. Irwin, outline the contours of Army etiquette. Stressing the importance of the service wife's role ("Wives are even mentioned in efficiency reports about their husbands"), bouncy, silver-haired Dorothy Irwin quickly got down to cases...
...varsity's all-out offense left no defensive problems this time. Some of the season's smoothest passwork, es- pecially by the new line of Cleary, Crehore, and Captain Scott Cooledge, continually enable the sextet to dominate play and goalies Charlie Flynn and Jimmy Bailey totaled only nine saves throughout the game...
...league's collective security arrangements. Most of the others shared Egypt's irritation but demurred at going so far. Instead, they persuaded Nasser to adjourn the session while a planeload of Arab League representatives flew off to Baghdad to try to argue Iraq's Premier Nuri es-Said back into the fold...