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...Marshall Plan worked faster than anyone had thought possible. By 1951, Western Europe's industrial production had soared to 40% above prewar levels, and its farm output was bigger than ever. Western Europe's current status as a vigorous economic competitor of the U.S. testifies to the plan's effectiveness...
Prime Minister of Britain from 1955 to 1957, Eden served his country as Foreign Secretary three times. He won an outpouring of public respect by resigning that post when he disagreed with Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's prewar policies. He gained further acclaim under Winston Churchill-serving, in effect, as Britain's wartime chief of staff, Churchill's alter ego and, as Oxford Historian Michael Howard puts it, "the loyal adjutant who skillfully executed his master's grand strategy." Seldom was a man so groomed for his country's highest political office. Yet when...
...Substitute. The war did settle one thing: as a regional headquarters for businessmen, diplomats, educators and journalists involved in the Middle East, there is no adequate substitute for Beirut. Neither Cairo nor Athens, Amman nor Tehran has proved able to match prewar Beirut in services, location, accommodations, creature comforts and just plain fun. Nor does any other city offer the combination of political, economic and cultural freedom that was the special Beirut cachet. But can that old Beirut of amiable permissiveness ever be reconstructed...
...land is less of a worry to most Beirutis, however, than the potential loss of prewar political freedoms. At the request of President Sarkis, the Parliament has voted extraordinary emergency powers to Premier Selim Hoss, including authority to impose press censorship, rule through military tribunals and ban public assembly. The Syrian army, acting on its own swaggering gering authority, has shut down eight Beirut publications that were critical of a peace-keeping arrangement in which the Syrians control everything down to mail delivery and traffic. Four of the eight were small pro-Iraq or pro-Libya journals-thus in effect...
...find out. Routed from their estates by Nicholas II, the opening message tells us, these hung-up aristocrats fled to the cities and found the streets lined with mattresses. Polish director Walerian Borowczyk's film leers away at one of them, the young Ewa, as the world of decadent prewar Europe opens her eyes. Story of Sin tells the tale of a Victorian miss gone va-va-va-voom...