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...budge, the angry Premier demanded that the other league members join him in reading Iraq out of the league's collective security arrangements. Most of the others shared Egypt's irritation but demurred at going so far. Instead, they persuaded Nasser to adjourn the session while a planeload of Arab League representatives flew off to Baghdad to try to argue Iraq's Premier Nuri es-Said back into the fold...
Early last month Hamid and Rusi arrived at Jidda, 40 miles west of Mecca, and promptly went to work. Wangling seats aboard the same Mecca-bound bus as a planeload of 21 Russian "pilgrims" (TIME, Aug. 16). Hamid and Rusi claimed to be Turks, and engaged the Russians in some probing conversation. In Mecca they began distributing thousands of leaflets they had prepared, followed through with dogged and dedicated heckling...
Arabs, were angry at Mendès' promise of autonomy within the French Union. They denounced Mendès-France as a "Judas Iscariot"; planeload after planeload of them went tearing off to Paris to protest his "sellout" to their powerful representatives in the National Assembly. Paris told Premier Ben Amar that Tunisian independence was at best a "stated principle," which could not possibly be implemented until "arrangements" have been made to secure the colons' special interests-investments, privileges, jobs...
...Legged Bowlers. Newsman Anderson, who was born in Pittsburgh, moved to Texas after a hitch in the Army in World War I and became sports editor of the Houston Press. It was not till early in World War II, when he saw a planeload of wounded soldiers from overseas arriving at a hospital, that he became interested in professional good works. Anderson was so shaken that he decided to help them regain their health through sports...
...restraint. The smiling President, who loved the companionship of happy people and prided himself on his conviviality, went from one party to another. Sometimes the cronies would repair to an Acapulco yacht or to one of the ranches, and certain members of the inner circle would invite a planeload of high-spirited girls to join the party. At one time or another, the name of almost every well-known Mexican movie actress was whispered as a presidential party guest. When the blowouts were staged at the Lower California ranch, pretty Hollywood companions were also near at hand...