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Gamal Abdel Nasser dined quietly at Aleppo's guesthouse, then announced with studied casualness that he was going out for a tour of Syria's largest city (pop. nearly 500,000). He climbed into a black sedan driven by Lieut. Colonel Abdel Hamid Serraj, the man he has picked for his proconsul in Syria-now known as the United Arab Republic's "Northern Region." Serraj drove him to the airport, where Nasser's private airplane waited.' Under cover of darkness and secrecy, the plane headed southwest past Israel's intervening airspace, and arrived safely...
Divided House. Last year's election ended indecisively when none of the four national parties gained a clear majority of seats in the House of Commons; as leader of the largest group (112 of 265 members), Diefenbaker was invited to form the new government. He brought in legislation to implement his major campaign promises-tax cuts, aid to farmers, higher social-security benefits-saw most of it adopted with the reluctant consent of the opposition parties, finally called for a new election that might give his party a firm majority...
Harvard's glee club today has the largest repertory of any college glee club in the land: 169 works in English, Latin, French, Italian, Tagalog and German. It has recorded Bach's St. Matthew Passion, Beethoven's Missa Solemnis, and works by such varied composers as Gabrieli, Piston. Byrd, Randall Thompson, Hindemith, Palestrina, Berlioz. Its concerts with the Boston Symphony have become city fixtures. This year, as every year, the club will perform in clubs, museums and theaters from Cambridge to Texas (48 concerts), will leave after final exams for a European tour. It performs...
...Page One last week. Other newspapers from Seattle to Savannah were doing their unlevel best to bull their way through one of the nation's biggest-and most botched-running stories: the recession. Though more than 50.000 workers are out of jobs in Georgia's four largest cities, the Atlanta Journal has zealously kept the state's slump off the front page, and, until last week, even banned the word recession from the paper...
...first major studios to recognize the inevitable and get into the production of TV films (Screen Gems, Inc.). But with TV's arrival came the end of Hollywood's unchallenged era. Last week, just before Harry Cohn died, Columbia issued a financial report showing the largest semi-annual loss ($820,000) in the company's history...