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...Association of the U.S. Army, a private organization made up of Army and ex-Army men and a loud-speaking outlet for top-level Army propaganda. On hand to stir them on were the Army's senior commanders, striving both by indirection and by extraordinarily blunt talk to overturn Defense Department policy and win for the Army a major place in the missile world. Displayed around the hotel ballroom were Army missiles and parts of missiles; at the entrance a placard blazoned the Army's basic doctrinal claim to render the Air Force obsolete. "In the missile...
...Menderes government, earnestly wooing the hard-shell rural Moslem vote, did its best for the hodja. When the court of first instance found him guilty and sentenced him to ten months in jail, the public prosecutor, in a curious performance, tried to get the Court of Appeals to overturn the conviction. And when that failed, the prosecutor appealed to Turkey's court of last resort-the Grand National Assembly, which Menderes dominates...
TRANS AMERICAN AIRLINES, biggest U.S. nonscheduled carrier (TIME, April 1), will go out of business June 5. U.S. Supreme Court refused to overturn CAB order revoking line's charter because it operated virtually as scheduled line without a franchise...
...airport in deference to Turkey's protests, called on him in his suite. Among other visitors: his sister and the sister of EOKA Leader Dighenis, who live together in Athens. Watching the scenes of adulation, observers conceded that Archbishop Makarios right now could overturn the Karamanlis government itself, if it crossed him. Lean, tanned and steely sure of himself, the archbishop showed no signs of such a wish, but last week all Greek politicians were uneasily trying to guess just what Makarios' plans were. Sighed one: "No one knows but the Almighty, and there...
...Journal. who was herself bullied by the mob at Clay, "the climate was unhealthy for two classes of citizens-newspaper people and Negroes." Before the guard arrived, newsmen trying to approach the Clay school were run out of town, and one managed to escape while a crowd tried to overturn...