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...something strange to see-an unwieldy hodgepodge of Scandinavian and Colombian infantry, Indian paratroopers, Yugoslav reconnaissance troops and Canadian headquarters personnel-yet the world's first international police force, taking form in Egypt last week, became from the outset a real instrument of power. Danish riflemen a little sheepishly took up buffer positions between the Egyptian and Anglo-French lines at El Cap, about 27 miles south of Port Said, and this week Norwegian and Danish troops are scheduled to relieve the Anglo-French forces of control of a large part of Port Said. Close to 2,700 officers...
...fourth area of research mentioned at the outset was acceptability. As far as students are concerned, they tend to regard television as equal to or slightly inferior to the ordinary method of instruction. Often they assume that because they have never learned anything over TV, they are incapable of learning anything over it. As a result, side activities, such as reading, talking, and sleeping, often spring up in viewing rooms. Perhaps this is unavoidable when students are freed from the necessity of courtesy to a lecturer, but if students can be won over to a positive attitude, educational...
Returns trickling in from the Western and Mountain states put the G.O.P. in the lead from the outset in Arizona, Colorado and Utah, New Mexico gave Ike a heavy lead. Even atom-conscious Los Alamos, one place where Stevenson's H-bomb issue might logically have set a fuse, went for Eisenhower...
More than injured pride and frustration had to explain Sir Anthony Eden's ruthless ultimatum and armed attack on Egypt. The justification, feebly put at the outset, but more and more emphatically later, is that Britain had lost faith in the U.N. It had decided to return to the loth century pattern of a big power's imposing peace and demanding of the rest of the world that it accept the result on the grounds that its methods are decisive and its motives high-minded. This classic role of self-appointed proctor of the world was reflected last...
...outset, in particular to a Broadway nourished on Maurice Evans' musically wistful Richard, he seemed psychologically adventurous. He stressed the real selfishness and womanishness in so self-consciously royal, but wholly unkingly, a figure; he showed the spindly weakness behind what Coleridge called Richard's "wordy courage." But Actor Neville failed to deepen or sustain the role. It was not just that by wallowing in self-pity he never seemed pitiful; that might argue severity of purpose in an actor. Unhappily, he never seemed sick, or contemptible, or tragic either. He merely seemed elaborate. He turned rhetoric into...