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...reproduction are the earmarks of life. But, the biologists ask, did the seas before the beginning of life really contain organic compounds? If so, where did they come from? In last week's issue of Science, a group of University of California scientists headed by W. M. Garrison told about an experiment that casts some light on the questions...
...last week, ugly anti-British riots flared up in Egypt. The Egyptian government had started it by abrogating the 1936 Anglo-Egyptian treaty under which Britain is permitted to garrison the Suez Canal Zone. Parliament, by unanimous vote, told the British to get out. And by the same vote, Egypt announced its intention to rule the Sudan alone, which Britain and Egypt have jointly administered since 1899. Fired by the brave deeds of Parliament, Cairo mobs howled: "Give us arms. Where are the arms?" Egypt's bloodthirsty Moslem Brotherhood vowed to "knock at the doors of heaven with...
Battle of the Bridge. So it began, but so it did not continue. British tanks and infantrymen rolled into Ismailia and Port Said, and took over railroad stations, harbors and telephone exchanges. Mechanized infantry sealed off the city of Suez. The commander of Britain's powerful Suez garrison is a tough, combat-seasoned soldier, Lieut. General Sir George Erskine, 52, who won the D.S.O. for helping to repel Rommel at El Alamein (said his citation: "He changed the whole course of battle"). "We are not going to be turned out, forced out or kicked out," he announced. His first...
Britain ordered her tough, desert-hardened Suez garrison to stand fast, and alerted reinforcements in Cyprus. The R.A.F. laid plans to airlift supplies to Suez in case of emergency. Would fighting break out in Egypt? Not unless "somebody else" starts it, said British Foreign Secretary Herbert Morrison...
...Good Thing We're Going." Angry, bitter and resentful at the Iranian and the British governments both, the last garrison of 322 British technicians left on the British cruiser Mauritius, after a night at the local Gymkhana Club and the Guest House Bar, when they made a manful effort to polish off a three-month supply of whisky in one glorious but decorous gulp. Even Vera ("Hard-Hearted Hannah") Flavell, the penny-pinching proprietress of the Guest House, had proclaimed drinks on the house. By the time the evacuees arrived at the Gymkhana Club once again for customs inspection...