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...industry. A quarter-million tourists a year, 25,000 from the U.S., pour into this medieval town in the green-girt Cotswolds to poke curiously through Anne Hathaway's neighboring cottage and peer reverently at Shakespeare's crypt in Holy Trinity Church. The red brick Stratford Memo rial Theater receives 1,000,000 ticket requests annually, is forced to turn down four out of five. The lucky ducat holders this year will pay $500,000 to sit on three sides...
...last week in July. But last month, former Dictator Juan Peron, exiled in the Dominican Republic, published what he said was a pre-election pact between himself and Frondizi. Thus provoked, the plotters moved up the date. At the signal-to be given by Rear Admiral Arturo Rial-the traditionally anti-Peronist Córdoba garrison would rise, and warships from the Rio Santiago and Puerto Belgrano bases would steam along the River Plate and blockade Buenos Aires. It was roughly the same plan that toppled Peron in 1955-Fatal Flaw. But the plan had a paradoxical flaw: too many...
...tumult and shouting in the Formosa Strait last week, two facts came clear. One was that the U.S. and Nationalist China could not assure the supply of beleaguered Quemoy without massive ae rial bombardment of Red artillery positions on the Chinese mainland. The other was that, for all their bluster, the Chinese Communists could not hope to capture Quemoy by direct assault in the teeth of the U.S. Seventh Fleet...
...just SAM. He needed no further identification. The same thing happened in other papers. For the last month the case of Dr. Samuel Sheppard, the Cleveland osteopath charged with murdering his pregnant wife TIME, Aug. 30), has been the biggest murder story in the U.S. press since the rial of Bruno Hauptmann in 1935. Said Herald & Express Managing Editor Herbert H. Krauch: "It's been a long time since there's been a murder trial this good...
...steadily being undermined by 1) the unpopularity of his attempt to oust the Shah, win control of the army and set up an unopposed dictatorship; 2) his failure to break the British blockade and sell crude oil to the outside world; 3) the attrition of the currency (the rial was 118 to the dollar last week, against 74 a year ago, 47 two years ago); 4) the infiltration of government ministries by the outlawed Communist Tudeh Party...