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...bitterest pill of all was the general Republican disapproval. A sort of "abominable noman" to Eisenhower loyalists in need of favors from the Federal Government, Adams was the tough cop many could admire but few tried to like. Now that he himself was in trouble, many remembered his relentless judgment against Air Force Secretary Harold Talbott, who once or twice solicited business for his efficiency-engineering firm on official Air Force stationery. Talbott and others had gone out complaining that the implacable Adams never gave them a chance to square up things, clear their names...
...their earnest efforts to hold on to Kenya-and to establish some sort of permanent peace between the races-the British have run into two kinds of obstacles. Once it was the Mau Mau terrorists; now it is a new kind of impatient black nationalism led by an aggressive 27-year-old labor leader named Tom Mboya. who wants nothing less than to set up in Kenya the same sort of black republic that Kwame Nkrumah runs in Ghana...
...only how to launch a rocket but how to use a toilet, sleep in a bed and eat from a table. The army teaches them Hebrew, the indispensable unifying language. From the army's machine shops. Moroccan, Tunisian, Hungarian, Polish, Bulgarian and Iraqi conscripts emerge as the sort of technicians in greatest demand in Israel's cities...
Buddha's Tooth. This sort of carnage has for weeks swept Ceylon, an island lying like a teardrop below the subcontinent of India. Because of its mountain beauty and the diversity, industry and peaceableness of its 8,500,000 inhabitants, Ceylon has been called the Switzerland of the East. What had transformed this sunny paradise into an inferno...
...through the briny to earn a small tribute from teacher: "A natural surfer." Back at his pine-shaded palace in Teheran, the Shah had earlier discussed his divorce from Princess Soraya, a water-ski student on her recent Bermuda trip, with a TIME correspondent: "It's the sort of tragedy that always waits around the corner for a man who puts his public life first. We were so close. I tried to appoint a crown prince, but everybody wanted somebody in the direct line. We had several meetings with our elder statesmen. They appealed to my sense of duty...