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...Ankara's NATO partners reaffirmed their desire for peace on the island, but failed to step in energetically on Turkey's behalf. In Moscow last week, Urguplu made a pitch for stronger Soviet backing over Cyprus, but there were limits to what Premier Aleksei Kosygin could prom ise. Russia, like Turkey, is against enosis, the union of Cyprus with Greece, but the Soviets are not likely to go so far as to back Turkey's desire for par tition of the island. The Turkish press blossomed with headlines when Kosygin promised the visiting Turks that the Kremlin...
...sincerest compliments Pablo Picasso, 83, could pay a friend in the old days was, "he always knew how to touch the sore spot." Not that Pablo was thin-skinned, understand. "People always tell untrue stories about me-let them," he said. He did, until Françise Gilot, 43, his mistress from 1944 to 1954, mother of two of his children, and author of Life with Picasso, told how he kept a goat in the house, blew his stack because she borrowed a pair of his trousers when she outgrew her own clothes during pregnancy, and boasted that "no woman...
Traditionally, a new Japanese Prime Minister does nothing until he has made his pilgrimage to the Ise Grand Shrines, humbly to request the support of Shinto gods. These days he also goes to Washington. Off last week on Japan Air Lines' Flight No. 800 flew Premier Eisaku Sato, 63, for his first trip to the U.S. since he took over from ailing Hayato Ikeda two months...
...perhaps, an inevitable ex tension of the long-established French practice of proxy marriage. Napoleon used the Archduke Charles in Vienna as his stand-in at the altar with Marie Lou ise of Austria, while the Emperor stayed comfortably in Paris. And proxy marriages between soldiers and their girls back home became common in World War I. But during the Indo-China war a decade ago, when it sometimes took weeks for news of a soldier's death in the jungles to reach Paris, brides often discovered that they had been married by proxy to men already killed...
...local ized cancers if the area can be pretreated with a hydrogen-peroxide solution injected into an artery, reported Baylor University's Dr. John T. Mallams. While limited in application, because no wide spread and few deep cancers can be at tacked this way, the method shows prom ise for cancers of the skin, mouth, and even some in the brain...