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High in the Rif mountains this week 4,000 young Moroccans hacked away with pick, shovel and sledge hammer, gouging a road out of the wilderness. Even for the peasants who made up three-quarters of the group, the work was exhausting, as temperatures simmered up over 100°. City boys desperately tried to toughen their torn hands with tannin from the bark of cork trees. The work was hard, and nobody got paid-but the whole business was somehow satisfying. The young nation of Morocco was building something for itself...
...last week and flew to Turkey on an urgent mission. Loy Wesley Henderson. 65, the State Department's ace troubleshooter for the Middle East, was off to meet Turkey's Premier Adnan Menderes. Iraq's King Feisal and Jordan's King Hussein to hammer together a common policy against the threat of Communist infiltration in Syria (see FOREIGN NEWS...
Four Freedoms & Unity. What Dr. Fry, together with 20 discussion-group leaders, 20 recorders and three theological consultants, had accomplished last week at the Third Assembly of the Lutheran World Federation was to hammer out 51 "theses" representing a meeting of minds of 50 million Lutherans on the role of their church in the world...
...week from Oslo to Ohio, track and field stars ignored midsummer heat, coolly cracked records. In Cleveland, Mrs. Olga Fikotova Connolly, the ex-Czech Olympic star who broke the Iron Curtain to marry U.S. Olympic Hammer Thrower Harold Connolly, scored at a national Amateur Athletic Union meet by breaking the U.S. women's discus record. Her throw: 147 ft. 8 in. In Naantali, Finland, England's Derek Ibbotson ran his fourth sub-four-minute mile (3:58.7), was followed by Finland's Olavi Vuorisalo (3:59.1). In Oslo, Pennsylvania's Josh Culbreath broke...
MUTUAL BROADCASTING, in the past a money-losing system, is being taken over from RKO Teleradio Pictures, Inc., a General Tire & Rubber Co. subsidiary, by a syndicate headed by Oilman Armand Hammer, who will become chairman, and Los Angeles Radio Executive Paul Roberts, who will become president. Group paid about $750,000 for network's good will and advertising contracts with 480 U.S., Canadian stations...