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...scrubby hills and low, rocky mountains. So rough is this terrain that even the French have made no serious effort to fortify the frontier itself. Instead, the French army has built the "Morice line," a 150-mile electrified barbed-wire fence along the Bône-Tebessa Railway (see map), which at some points lies as much as 50 miles west of the frontier. Any break in the wire is instantly registered on control panels in military posts and brings a detachment of French troops hustling to the threatened area...
...Nasser's new regime. At the U.S. Damascus embassy, due for downgrading to consulate general, an aggressive local enterprise tacked a notice on the bulletin board: "All sizes of packing trunks. Call Mrs. Kobbani." Under the solvent of Arab nationalism, the old lines were fading on the map of the Middle East; Cairo and Baghdad would resume struggles almost as old as the Euphrates and the Nile, but along new frontiers...
...drew the political boundary between Egypt and the Sudan along the 22nd parallel. But in 1902, in order to avoid splitting tribes in the Wadi Haifa and Halaib regions, the Egyptians agreed to pass to the Sudan administrative control of two areas which jut northward above the parallel (see map). In the past 56 years Egypt had never claimed them. Nasser followed up his first note with another announcing that he was sending election officials into the areas so that the inhabitants of the two areas could vote in the plebiscite ratifying the Egyptian-Syrian merger. It was a bald...
Hartford has this unique kind of collection largely because in the art market it is outgunned by Boston and New York. Although it is the oldest incorporated U.S. public art museum (founded 1842), it had only provincial rating until J. Pierpont Morgan's bequest put it on the map in 1917 with handsome bronzes, silver and porcelain, including the largest collection of 18th century Meissen figurines in the U.S. A surprise $2,000,000 in 1927 from Hartford Banker Frank C. Sumner ("He used to drive out in a purple Rolls-Royce to see the Hartford Chiefs play baseball...
Conquest: Alone with the universe, the astronomer peered into the eyepiece of the telescope that towered through the observatory roof and spied on the moon. His voice echoed in the empty chamber. "Now, I note about twelve impact craters, and the largest of these I shall mark on the map with an A." said Dutch-born Dr. Gerard Kuiper head of the University of Chicago's Yerkes Observatory. By such sharply focused glimpses of scientists at work, Conquest (CBS) started to live up to its promise as a $1,000,000 series of ten science programs that will stretch...