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This office enjoyed and appreciated the article regarding Dr. John Heller of the National Cancer Institute and recent advances made in cancer research that appeared in the July 27 issue of TIME...
...nationalism, even if the enthusiasm of Jordanians for direct union with Egypt has waned. The border between Syria and Jordan, closed for weeks by Nasser's United Arab Republic, was ordered reopened by Cairo, and last week Hussein announced: "Diplomatic relations with the U.A.R. will be resumed." The recent disorders in neighboring Iraq have also roused respect for the King among Jordanians who used to discount his attacks on Communism as mere please-the-Yanks propaganda...
...having proved his courage in crisis, the King still finds his efforts to achieve stability in Jordan blocked by the Palestinian refugees, that disgruntled one-third of the nation upon which foreign and domestic demagogues play. Any real effort to improve living conditions in Jordan, such as the recent Hammarskjold irrigation schemes, runs afoul of the refugees' suspicion that it is a plot to divert them from their right to recover their lost homeland in Israel. Last week, standing slim, straight and small in his field marshal's uniform on the balcony at Tulkarm, Hussein could...
Carey illustrates all his points with apt quotations from recent books or newspapers. His commentary is pellucid; and it avoids all, but the most elementary technical terms of grammar and syntax. From time to time evidences of a delightful wit even crop...
...comparing Russia in the time of Stalin and under the present regime, Elliott agreed that the country "has relaxed greatly" since then. During a previous trip to the U.S.S.R., Elliott spoke with Stalin. In light of his recent trip, Elliott says, "the people still look overburdened, but they showed their own genuine desire for friendship...