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...Suez crisis, he sided with the U.S.; since the satellite uprisings, Vicky has bitterly lampooned Russian policy. Says Vicky, who also cartoons for the anti-U.S. weekly New Statesman and Nation: "I am in the funny position of having been called anti-American and of now be ing called a new-found friend of America...
...possibly as much as $75 million, on the belief that the U.S public will switch to color television. To 500 station owners and executives affiliated with NBC and thus involved-not all of them happily-in its color plunge, Sarnoff insisted that black-and-white TV is slack ing off and color is "the booster charge for our fourth decade." With the kind of optimism that helped his immigrant father become one of the great U.S. success stories, Bobby Sarnoff professed to see a pleasant sight. "At our 60th anniversary convention," he said, "I expect to be talking about television...
...decades have Manhattan muse um-and gallery-goers witnessed such a heaping helping of British art as is spread out before them this season. The main course, in the Manhattan Museum of Modern Art's "Masters of British Paint ing" show, is a 150-year survey of 31 artists (see color pages), ranging from the visions of William Blake to the hallucinatory portraits of Francis Bacon, from the landscapes of Turner and Constable to the cool, elegant abstractions of Ben Nicholson and Stanley Spencer's portrayal of a New Jerusalem near his green and pleasant home town...
Late Joiner. At first, Britain was not I in on this act. Britain was still busy try-I ing to outbid Nasser for leadership of the I Arab world. Early in October, Sir Anthony I Eden infuriated the Israelis by suggesting Va peace based on the 1947 partition plan, which would cost Israel all the territory it won later by beating the Arabs. Jordan was the battleground of Britain's contest with Nasser. Jordan had kicked out Britain's Glubb Pasha, but still needed its $33-million-a-year subsidy from Britain. At London's urging, Iraq (Britain's only...
...protected from the endless sneak raids of Arab infiltrators, Israel must attend in its own way to its border security. Ben-Gurion returned early last year from the Negev desert to active duty as Defense Minister. Just eleven days later Israeli armed forces carried out a smash ing raid on the Gaza Strip, in reprisal for acts of individual Palestinian refugees who had crossed the border to their former holdings. This was a turning point, not only for Israel but the Middle East. Egypt's Nasser has since justified a large part of his belligerent actions on the basis...