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Married. Frederick Forsyth, 33, English journalist and author of two back-to-back bestsellers, The Day of the Jackal and The Odessa File; and Carrie Cunningham, 26; both for the first time; in Gibraltar...
...Quemoy and Matsu. "If you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost," Secretary of State John Foster Dulles said of the crisis, thus arousing anxious critics to denounce him for what they called "brinkmanship." Today, these half-forgotten pinpoints of land rank with the Rock of Gibraltar and the Maginot Line as among the world's most notable military anachronisms. Yet they are still guarded by an intrepid army of some 100,000 Chinese Nationalists, who are sporadically shelled every other day from the Communist mainland. TIME Correspondent Roy Rowan visited Quemoy and filed the following...
...Tough on Gibraltar. With few exceptions, the new Cabinet members are notable more for their loyalty than for their innovative tendencies. Perhaps the ablest of the lot is López Rodó, 52, a devoted member of the political-religious organization Opus Dei, to which he contributes his income; he does not drink, hates to travel and resides in an Opus Dei dormitory. López Rodó served as Planning Minister from 1962 to this year, and is one of the men directly responsible for Spain's current economic boom. He is regarded as anti-British...
...crew members were paid $125 "danger bonuses" for the 14-day cruise, and ten rabbis on board prayed for the Q.E.2's safety as the ship sailed out of Southampton Harbor. From there, the ship was followed by Royal Air Force jets; as she entered the Strait of Gibraltar she was joined by a British destroyer. The Q.E.'s crew was augmented for the occasion by at least 50 security men and several Labrador retrievers whose mission was to sniff out any explosives that might be hidden within the ship. With three tons of matzoth in the pantry...
...Pariah. Spain's brutal war had scarcely subsided in 1939 before Europe's war began. Despite his debts to Germany and Italy for their help in his victory, Franco avoided the bigger battle, and even turned aside a German request for permission to attack Gibraltar through Spain. Franco and Hitler met for nine hours one day in 1940 to discuss the question. By the end of their conversation, Hitler was unnerved by Franco's high-pitched monotone. "The man is not cut out to be a politician," the Führer complained later. "I would rather have...