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...York by staff members working with reports sent in by correspondents all over the world. This week's cover story on Canada's next Prime Minister, Lester Pearson, is an exception. It was written and edited in Montreal by our Canada staff, which is manning a unique outpost in TIME'S editorial operation...
...minister (Robert Preston), disguised as a jewel thief and accompanied by a hotel chambermaid (Eileen Heckart). coaxes an invalided gentlewoman (Glynis Johns) into letting him sell her pearls and kidnap her for ransom. The trio lives it up globally on the loot before coming to rest in a desert outpost of empire where a bean-brained colonel (Cyril Ritchard) and a versatile private (David Wayne) in Bedouin regalia, a la T. E. Lawrence, dizzily keep the pax Britannica...
...Poland at last dropped its tough demands, and the two sides signed their first long-term trade agreement, a threeyear, $650 million pact exchanging West German machinery and metals for Polish meat, fruit and dairy products. West Germany will send a permanent trade mission to Warsaw, its first permanent outpost in a Soviet satellite land. Bonn officials clearly feel the way is open for similar deals with Hungary and Czechoslovakia...
Most striking outpost for the addicts' mutual-aid method is Nevada State Prison. Authorities invited Founder Charles E. Dederich. 49 (never a drug addict himself, but a graduate of A.A.), to set up Synanon's system in the cell blocks and maximum freedom honor camp at Peavine, northwest of Reno. The result has been an unexpected bonus. Not only is Synanon taking hold with 18 addicts, but because the same personality weaknesses that drive some people to narcotics are also present in many nonaddict prisoners, the Synanon program at Nevada now covers twice as many convicts with...
...General; in London. He proudly called himself "the first member of the Jewish community" to enter the British Cabinet, and after working with Chaim Weizmann to achieve the Balfour Declaration, became Britain's first High Commissioner to Palestine from 1920-25. There, inheriting the disorder of a sleepy outpost of the fallen Ottoman Empire, he put aside his personal feelings as a Jew, ruled the antagonistic Arabs and Jews with rare justice and creativity. Later, in such philosophical works as Belief and Action: An Everyday Philosophy, he used his same mediating skills in an attempt to reconcile the divergence...