Word: mediterraneans
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From the Baltic to the Mediterranean, from the Shannon to the Elbe, tractors, horse teams and the work-blackened fingers of peasant women were gathering in ,what looked like the biggest harvest since World War II. French hillsides teemed with blue and green grapes that sent the price of wine toppling. In Germany, cattle and hogs were plump and plentiful; in Scandinavia, furrows bulged with a splendid crop of potatoes. Everywhere, except in Switzerland, where the spring frosts were harsh, Western Europe's harvest waxed fat and mellow, promising its people that next winter none need starve...
...being dropped." The U.S. cruiser Salem, flagship of the Sixth Fleet, put a team of doctors and medical aides ashore. They reported: "The silence is broken only by the cries of the injured, and the crunch beneath the shoes of the stretcher bearers." Said Earl Mountbattan of Burma, NATO Mediterranean commander: "Cephalonia looks as if a giant hand had smashed its buildings to the ground...
Paradise Found. Hollywood, the Gossets found, "does not exist"; it has been entirely sublet to charlatans and parasites, "small people with small ideas." But San Francisco-"the most civilized, the most refined, the most cultivated and the most Mediterranean city of the U.S." captured the Gossets' hearts at first sight made them ready to sing "California, Me Voilà!" (California, Here I Come). Last week, the memory still a warm glow, the roving Gossets were getting ready to move their home from Tangier to San Francisco...
...which TIME keeps up with the movement of Navy ships from one FPO to another. Ferret explained that TIME'S worldwide publication of five editions makes it logistically easy to keep up with a wandering Navy vessel. For example, if a sailor's ship is in the Mediterranean or the North Sea, he would get the Atlantic edition. If he moved into the Pacific, he would get either the Pacific edition printed in Honolulu or the one from Tokyo...
Egypt, getting wind of the negotiations, tried to dissuade her Arab League neighbor, but did not succeed. British power in the Eastern Mediterranean now relies on its bases in Malta (naval) and Iraq (a big air complex at Habbaniya), its military and financial control of the tiny kingdom of Jordan (whose British-trained Arab Legion is the Arab world's finest army) and its army base on the island of Cyprus. Faced with getting out of the Suez, the British at first talked of expanding Cyprus, but ran afoul of Cyprus' lack of harbors and the disfavor...