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PARIS, Dec. 18--Atlantic Alliance leaders agreed unanimously today to gird Europe for push-button rocket warfare. This victory for President Eisenhower's strategy of nuclear stockpiles and medium-range missile bases in Britain and on the Continent was a NATO summit conference compromise...
...should explain in direct and simple terms. Don't approach Americans with negative assumptions. Americans are friendly toward India and have no bias in any way-if we don't succeed, let us search our own hearts. That is what our leader Mahatma Gandhi said. Let us gird up our loins to remove misunderstandings...
...throne for himself, the legendary Greek hero Jason sought and found the fabled Golden Fleece, outward symbol of all that was most rich and rare. Today's Jason is another golden Greek, the modern-day Argonaut Stavros Spyros Niarchos, 48 (TIME, Aug. 6, 1956), whose tanker fleets gird the globe, bring in a train of wealth and credit that affords Niarchos comforts and pleasures beyond even Jason's imaginings. Niarchos has a Long Island estate, a Manhattan triplex, a penthouse atop London's Claridge's, a princely hótel particulier in Paris...
...There is too much chasing after comfort, profits and riches," he thundered in the accents of an Old Testament patriarch. Israel, he proclaimed, was in danger. Israel's youth must gird itself, man new settlements along the threatened border, stand ready to repel the merciless Arab. Last October, at 70, he risked all on a bold and cunning "preventive war" to knock out Nasser's new, Soviet-supplied army...
Though the U.S. oil pipeline system would gird the globe 7½ times, it is still not enough. In Houston last week, six oil companies (Continental, Standard of California, Gulf, Richfield, Shell and Superior) prepared to fill another gap in the system, jointly formed the Four Corners Pipe Line Co. to supply California with its first piped crude oil. Houstonian R. G. McIntyre, recently retired chairman of the board of Standard Oil of Texas, was elected president of Four Corners, named for the oil-rich area where the borders of Utah, New Mexico, Arizona and Colorado meet. The new line...