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Named to the Executive Board were: Allerton J. Cushman '58, of Kirkland House and New York City; Daniel H. Garrison '59, of Kirkland House and Mason, Mich.; Robert Jordan '58, of Eliot House and New York City; Thomas Lumbard '58, of Kirkland House and New York City; Phillip McCoy '59, of Eliot House and Kansas City, Kan.; Peter Salisbury '58, of Adams House and Dearborn, Mich.; William S. Talbot '59, of Kirkland House and Williamstown; John Washburn '59, of Lowell House and Tryon, N.C.; and Elisabeth Nelson '58, of Saville House and Saugus...
Under Gaza's pale minarets and scraggly date palms, locally recruited Arab police and Israeli constables patrol in pairs, distinguishable from each other in their air-force-blue uniforms only because the Arab wears a beret, the Israeli a garrison cap. But while the persistent Israelis clean up the towns and modernize the farms, the inhabitants of much-conquered Gaza wait warily. Said one, when asked last week for his view of Gaza's future: "Tell me who is going to be our master, and I'll tell you what I think...
...pressure was on Israel to withdraw, but also on Egypt to negotiate. Should the Egyptians refuse to accept a UNEF garrison on the shores of the Tiran Straits, the UNEF might well wind up adding a navy-a destroyer patrolling the narrows to insure for Israeli ships what Hammarskjold has affirmed as the "right of innocent passage...
...Germans are set to wipe out the null British garrison on the Greek isle of Kheros. The Germans control the air by day and the British the sea by night. Unless the British can silence a German battery on the neighboring isle of Navarone, nothing can save the Kheros garrison. Five men are selected to sail a caique under the cliffs by night, scale them, and blow up the German guns. Largely because the five are led by a man so tough and tight-lipped that he would make Bulldog Drummond seem like a pacifist balletomane, they pull off this...
...University of Chicago's Oriental Institute, and a team of Yale experts, will be published this month (Yale University; $15). Ironically, the pictures were preserved by what probably seemed to Dura's Jews to be their desecration. The commander of the city's Roman garrison, faced with the threat of an enemy attack, did his best to prepare the city against Persian siege tactics. To keep the city walls from collapsing even if they were undermined, the commander ordered the street nearest the most vulnerable wall filled with earth, heaping it up over the house roofs...