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...years since Washington put a ban on the sale of war-useful materials to Iron Curtain countries, there has been many an attempt to evade the embargo, chiefly by foreign firms. Last week Washington revealed the first case involving a major U.S. firm: the Commerce Department had caught Willys-Overland Export Corp. in a deal that landed 100 of its jeeps behind the Iron Curtain...
...Basile Obegi of Syria placed an order with a New York export house for 100 four-wheel-drive jeeps (which cannot legally be exported to Iron Curtain countries). The jeeps' purported destination was Beirut, where a merchant named Jean Maghamez supposedly wanted them for local farmers. Willys-Overland Export Corp. of Toledo cabled its Syrian dealer, Levant Motors, to investigate the $150,000 order. Levant Motors discovered that Consignee Ma-ghamez was just a front man, and replied that it suspected Les Fils de Basile Obegi was planning to reexport the jeeps to Rumania. The auto firm, however, said...
Married. Marion Marlowe, 26, TV songstress fired last month from Arthur Godfrey's Wednesday TV show; and Larry Puck, 55, TV producer fired from the same show last December; both for the second time; in Overland...
...pact if "incidents" kept occurring in Antarctica. The point was that the General San Martin's new base not only lay well within Britain's claimed slice of Antarctica but was near the announced starting point of a planned British-New Zealand attempt to make the first overland trek across the antarctic continent...
...State Department, Far East experts were far less certain than Knowland about the effectiveness of a blockade. They pointed out that Red China still would have a free and important channel of commerce by its overland routes into the Soviet Union. There was serious official doubt, too, about whether allies of the U.S. would join in a blockade...