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...these operations for themselves. Since the end of World War II, when TIME'S international editions succeeded the special wartime editions for the armed forces abroad, our editorial offices have become a magnet for foreign journalists. They have come to us from, among other places, Helsinki and Karachi, Turin and Cali...
...Karachi last week, when a butcher was accused of bringing cattle into the city without a permit, his lawyer asked the court: "Is there, legally speaking, such a place as Karachi?" The government, red-faced, asked a postponement. A navy lieutenant, charged with drunkenness, boldly asked his accusers"! "On whose authority is this court-martial held? Is there, legally speaking, a commander in chief?" The court-martial was promptly adjourned...
...Karachi last week, iron-minded, frail bodied Governor General Ghulam Mohammed decreed for himself further "emergency powers." He signed an edict combining four provinces (Sind, Baluchistan, West Punjab and Northwest Frontier Province) and several princely states into one unit called West Pakistan (pop. 33.5 million). He put his civil servants to work on what Pakistan's Constituent Assembly had for seven years failed to achieve-a constitution...
Turkey's two mightiest political figures last week left their own shores to line up friends abroad. President Celal Bayar turned up in Karachi to cement a military alliance with Pakistan. Premier Adnan Menderes descended by air on Baghdad to sign a Turkish-Iraqi treaty of mutual defense against Communism...
Mayes will become associate professor of Public Health Practice next September when he returns from India. He is serving as Chief of the Public Health Mission and Director of the Health and Sanitation Division of the Foreign Operations Agency in Karachi...