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From the time of Alexander the Great, the road to Indian conquest has led down from the north through the Khyber Pass. To keep the encroaching Russians away from this gateway to their empire, the British built up the buffer state of Afghanistan across the Khyber's mountainous northern approaches. Last week, only nine years after the British turned over the Khyber's defenses to the new and troubled state of Pakistan, the long-feared penetration of Russian military influence into Afghanistan was announced as a fact. In Kabul, Afghanistan's Strongman Mohammed Daoud Khan, who last...
...interested in where you will be sitting in the Yale Bowl on Saturday, here are some of the figures. The best tickets are those marked for Portal 1, the gateway between the 35 and 50 yard lines. Portal 2 leads to a section extending from the 20 to the 35 yard marks, and Portal 3 to the area from the 20 yard line to the end of the field...
...confronted with expensive excess-baggage fees on the planes. Far more tragically stranded were hundreds of outward-bound British emigrants, many of whom had sold all they possessed and spent a futile fortnight fighting their way across a strikebound country only to come to a full stop at the gateway. Short of funds in the emergency, many signed on at the Labor Exchange for temporary jobs...
Just outside the gateway to Milan's 33rd annual fair last week, an enormous yellow sign bore the proud legend: "1945-1955-ten years of work for a free and respected fatherland.' Inside, at the biggest industrial fair in Italian history, were the results of Italy's postwar labors, helped by some $3 billion in U.S. funds. Stretching over 100 acres were futuristic exhibit halls and brightly painted booths of 9,400 Italian firms-and 4,000 foreign companies that wanted to sell in Italy's expanding markets. In the two weeks of the fair, some...
Without shedding even his coat, 42-year-old Preacher Sawyer grabbed his movie camera and made for the camp gateway. One nudist tossed a neat block and Sawyer's burly bulk (5 ft.11 in., 225 Ibs.) hit the dust (see cut). Nudists rallied to revive him with a first-aid kit. a camp chair and a sandwich. A few minutes later, he tried again, fell even harder. Next day Preacher Sawyer came back, once again found the gate guarded. Said he earnestly: "I intend to intensify my campaign ... I give them credit for being as sincere...