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...Thor-Able rocket took off from its pad at Cape Canaveral with a symmetrical gush of flame and climbed into the morning sky. Above the clouds, the second-stage rocket, the Able part of the act, took over and burned as scheduled. Unseen in space, four paddle-batteries sprang into position. At an altitude of 300 miles, the solid-propellant third stage fired and pushed its speed to 24,869 m.p.h...
...Moroccans at first left the uninhibited economy essentially alone. Tax evaders from all over the world continued to pour their furtive millions into Tangier's banks. More dummy "Tangier corporations" sprang up to shield actual corporations from paying taxes back home. Legitimate banks, as well as companies that called themselves banks, and a host of money-changers could still offer currency bargains unsurpassed anywhere...
...limousines rolled up, one after another, the honor guard posted before Washington's vast, columned Interdepartmental Auditorium repeatedly sprang to attention. Inside the hushed hall a loudspeaker announced each arrival: Premier Manouchehr Eghbal of Iran, Premier Adnan Menderes of Turkey, Foreign Minister Manzur Qadir of Pakistan, British Ambassador to the U.S. Sir Harold Caccia. With all due pomp, the U.S. last week was playing host to the semiannual Ministerial Council of CENTO, the Baghdad-less Baghdad Pact...
...vast, mineral-rich Congo with what seemed to be the most foolproof of colonial formulas: steady economic progress, combined with almost no political progress at all. But as the virus of nationalism spread across Africa and the newly autonomous republics of Charles de Gaulle's French Community sprang up throughout the continent, the Belgian Congo suddenly caught freedom fever. Early this year, after Leopoldville, capital of the Congo, exploded in the bloodiest race riots the colony had known in a decade (TIME, Jan. 19), Belgium hastily promised gradual independence "without fatal delays and without rash haste." Last week, despite...
...first acts in office, Sauvé took steps to consolidate himself as the new Chef, eying his Union Nationale party's first big test in expected elections next spring. From the treasury he sprang $16.5 million to build old couples' homes and aid 63 private high schools across the province. (Twenty of the schools never had received grants before because Duplessis enigmatically decided to ignore them.) Affably, Paul Sauvé set out to woo Quebec newsmen, who often feuded with Duplessis. He named a press attache "so the public can quickly be informed.'' And he quickly...