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...some civilian Cabinet Ministers. Out of the second meeting came another strange reversal: at Colonel Nasser's suggestion, announced a spokesman, Mohammed Naguib had once more been designated Premier, as well as President. Colonel Nasser was stepping back down to Vice Premier. The sudden Cabinet shifts of a fortnight earlier were rescinded. "The setup [is] as before," said the R.C.C. All the stormy doings of two weeks, it added, had been but "a passing cloud...
...Beirut, where he lived in exile until last fortnight's revolution, Dawalibi recently told a TIME correspondent: "The West wants us to forget about the enemy on our border [Israel] and worry about people thousands of miles away [Russia]. The West thinks we ought to follow them, just when they've helped the Jews to take away the Arab's country . . . The trouble with you Americans is that you always want other people to take your advice. You don't take anyone else's advice, and why should...
...only dummies have ridden in this disquieting sled, which can withstand forces up to 100G's. So when Lieut. Colonel John P. Stapp, 43 (TIME, January 18), head of the test project, called for human volunteers a fortnight ago, he could not have been sure how many would respond. Flying at the speed of sound in a comfortable airplane designed for the purpose is not the same thing as sliding at the same speed in a rocket-pushed sled at zero altitude...
...posted a sign overlooking King David Memorial Garden, which said: "Investigation has disclosed underground streams with considerable flow just below the surface of this entire area. If you insist on being buried [here] please use a coffin of a type that will retard contamination of our well." A fortnight ago, five 25-ft. gallows, equipped with hangman's nooses, appeared on the Curtin property, looming lugubriously over the cemetery. Soon, Curtin promised, he would add realistic dummies...
SHELL OIL, which struck the first oil in Nevada a fortnight ago, may also become the first producer in Arizona. So far, the company has gone down 5,960 ft. in the northeast corner of the state near the Utah-New Mexico border, found traces of oil and a pocket of natural...