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...thin red line of empire was still unraveling last week. This time the scene of the fray was Aden, at the southern tip of Arabia, a barren 75-sq.-mi. crown colony that owes the relative prosperity of its 250,000 citizens largely to the fact that it is the second largest of Britain's dwindling overseas bases. That is at least one too many for Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, who for two years has backed a resistance movement to heave the British...
...craters than it appears to have. Assuming a fairly constant supply of crater-forming asteroids, Mars, which is far closer to the asteroid belt, would have been hit up to 25 times more often than the moon. There would be as many as 220 craters per 1,000,000 sq. km., not the meager 37 that have been observed...
Victory, in fact, belonged to no one in last week's ceasefire. Kashmir remained divided. India still claimed 690 sq. mi. of Pakistani territory (see map), but had failed by a scant three miles to capture the strategic Sialkot plateau. Pakistan held 250 sq. mi. of Indian Kashmir and Rajasthan, but had lost -temporarily at least - half its armor. And Red China had lost that most val uable of Asian commodities: face...
...what Orozco himself maintained: that his best work was in his drawings and murals. He considered his oil paintings mediocre, turned them out mainly to make money. By contrast, when his heart was involved, he worked for a pittance. He got $4 a day while painting the 13,000-sq.-ft. ceiling mural in the Hospicio Cabanas at Guadalajara. Today this allegorical representation of the elements ranks as his masterpiece...
Trip to Moscow. Pakistan's relations with Red China had been cool and correct. But after Ayub Khan's recriminations against Washington, things grew warmer. Negotiations were begun to define the 200-mile border with Tibet; Peking proved generous, handing over to Pakistan about 750 sq. mi. of disputed territory. As the Pakistanis turned willing, the Chinese turned eager. Trade expanded; an agreement was reached for Pakistan International Airlines to make biweekly flights between Karachi and Canton; China advanced a $60 million credit to Pakistan...