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...Ecuador-Peru quarrel over boundaries has been bubbling, and occasionally boiling up into small-scale warfare, ever since Ecuador became a nation in 1830. In 1942, after the last serious gunfighting between the two countries, a six-nation committee in Rio awarded Peru some three-fourths of the null jungle territory under dispute. The Ecuadorians have been fretting about the decision ever since, and the mere approach of a Peruvian patrol to the poorly demarcated border is enough to set off invasion alarms. During the past year, nerves on both sides have tautened further as the two countries added...
Tests of Authenticity. As soon as a respite in Arab-Israeli war permitted, a French Dominican priest, Pèe Roland de Vaux of the Ecole Biblique et Archéologique null in old Jerusalem, and English-born G. Lankester Harding, director of the Jordanian Department of Antiquities, visited the cave, which was in Jordan in an area called Khirbet Qumrân (stone ruin). They found hundreds of additional manuscript fragments and pieces of broken pottery, later discovered more than 40 previously unknown caves, many containing ancient manuscripts in Hebrew, Greek and Aramaic. Altogether, the manuscripts included parts...
...Arriving in Manhattan for a two-month U.S. tour, France's brightest literary prodigy, winsome Novelist null (Bonjour Tristesse-TIME, Feb. 14) Sagan, 19, breakfasted (on tea and soda crackers) with reporters who heard how Bonjour, a bestseller in both France and the U.S., was written. Recalled Françoise: "I was eliminated from the Sorbonne in the summer of 1953 for skipping all my classes. So, having nothing else to do, I sat in cafes and bars around the Sorbonne and wrote the book in a month." Asked how her daddy, a happily married Paris manufacturer, felt about...
...situation Picasso will soon change. Two weeks ago he handed back his gingerbread Riviera house in 'Vallauris to his former wife, Franchise Gillot, and for 12 million francs bought a sunny, 13-room villa, La null overlooking Cannes, six miles from Communist Leader Maurice Thorez. Said Soviet-Admirer Picasso proudly: "For the first time in my life I will be a houseowner...
...Georgia Democrat Walter George has been a low-tariff man since the null He still is-with some reservations. He will, he says, support the Eisenhower measure, but he adds: "It may be that I will vote for sortie clarifying amendments." What is George worried about? Says he quietly: "My textile people are very much disturbed...