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...Cypriot terrorist underground, EOKA, last week ended his truce with the British authorities who rule embattled Cyprus. It came as news to many Britons on the island that there ever had been a "truce." In the previous week one British soldier had been killed and four wounded in a seven-hour gun battle in which they killed four EOKA men holed up in a barn near Famagusta; on the streets of Nicosia, a British airman walking hand-in-hand with his wife was murdered by three EOKA gunmen, who fired five shots from a passing taxi. From Royal Air Force...
Control of Time. Before his statement had burst into print Texan Johnson was on his way again. He seemed everywhere at once: describing a new electric vibrator to Vice President Richard Nixon, eating breakfast with Defense Secretary Neil McElroy and again with Army Secretary Wilber Brucker, holding seven-hour committee sessions, making television films for a Texas network, striding down a corridor tossing off orders to two pretty secretaries who took notes as they scurried after him, slipping into a dinner jacket for a banquet, speaking to the Women's National Press Club and to 1,200 steelworkers...
...stepped from his plane, was greeted warmly by Panama's President Ricardo Arias, dozens of military and diplomatic VIPs (including John Foster Dulles, who had arrived 13 minutes earlier). Ike, his collar size down to 15½ from 16, looked pale and tired after the seven-hour flight, although he had slept well in his airborne berth...
...melting pot has never known anything like the Puerto Rican. For one thing, he is a U.S. citizen by birth, though he may never get to know more than a word or two of English. He steps out of a plane at Idlewild with but a seven-hour journey behind him, and he can be back among his wooden shacks again next month or next day, if he has the $57.75 plane fare. In 1953, for example, 289,000 Puerto Ricans left their island and 213,000 were back within the same year...
...other resources would be economically nonexistent . . . Technological progress during the past century, especially since 1900, appears to have been more rapid in the U.S. than anywhere else in the world." Looking ahead, Dewhurst makes a vivid prediction: in the year 2050 a worker will produce in one seven-hour day what takes today's man a 40-hour week...