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...Under the new setup, TAG will be commanded by
able, pugnacious Lieut. General John K. ("Uncle Joe") Cannon, 58, one
of the Air Corps' oldtime hell-for-leather pilots,
...burnoosed Arab swung a Geiger counter over a fat steel pipe, tracing the progress of a radioactive swab inside. Behind the swab pushed a brown tide of oil, bound on a 1,068-mile journey from Arabian-American Oil Co.'s vast Saudi Arabian wells to the Mediterranean port of Sidon, in Lebanon. It was the first oil to pass through the $200 million Trans-Arabian pipeline (known as Tapline), the biggest overseas construction project ever financed by private U.S. capital...
Tapline, which will deliver 350,000 barrels of oil a day to the Mediterranean coast, will change the oil-supply map of the world. The North Atlantic nations will get a much faster supply of oil because of the shorter Mediterranean route, previously fed only by Iraq Petroleum Co.'s pipelines from Kirkuk. Europe, long a big importer of oil from the Western Hemisphere, can now take more from the Middle East, leave Western Hemisphere supplies to the U.S., which now depends increasingly on imported...
...recognize the blockade, Isbrandtsen demanded, in full-page ads in New York newspapers, that the State Department uphold freedom of the seas and give him protection by U.S. warships. Earlier, Isbrandtsen ships had been seized in the East Indies by the Dutch (over export license technicalities) and in the Mediterranean by the Egyptians (on suspicion of carrying war goods to Israel). The Dutch have since made a settlement for damages; the U.S. State Department is negotiating for Isbrandfceen with the Egyptians...
Classical Perspective. From the Mediterranean, paradise of diggers, came news of gaudier digs. At the site of ancient Stabiae, near Naples, Professor Libero D'Orsi was impatiently watching a field of ripening tomatoes, the property of Peasant Vincenzo Tammaro. Under the tomatoes, he was sure, lay riches of classical art. But the peasant had the professor neatly trussed in red tape. He could not sink a spade until the tomatoes were safely in the sauce factory...