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...Wrapped in a heavy black wool coat, she waves a nervous hand at the shapes and explains: "This is the universe, the stars, the moon-and you and I, everyone." (The one in the show's title refers to the viewer.) Pointing to a wall of narrow and squat open boxes rhythmically jammed with wood bits of all shapes, she says: "This is Cathedral in the Sky, man's temple to man. And over there is the Moon Dial, the clocking of man's eternal search for the serene. Behind it, the Heavenly Gate, and above...
After two months of fighting, irregulars of the Moroccan Liberation Army, under the leadership of a squat ex-Marrakech street vendor named Ben Hamou, have driven the Spanish out of most of their Atlantic Coast enclave of Ifni. Ifni is not much but rocky rubble and scrub, but its single city, Sidi Ifni (pop. 10,000), has been used by the Spanish as the seat of the governor of all its desert provinces-Ifni, Rio de Oro, Spanish Sahara, as well as the part of southern Morocco that they have continued to rule on the ground that King Mohammed...
...geology classes," says another official of the Teachers' Federation, "we have 32 microscopes for 540 students. For about half the audience in our amphitheater there is standing room only. Students squat on window sills or crouch on the floor; half cannot see the blackboard...
...doctrine of instant readiness. At Strategic Air Command bases from Okinawa to Limestone, Me. to Morocco, one-third of SAC's force of about 1,500 nuclear 6-47 medium jet bombers. 200 6-52 heavy jet bombers ("the long rifles") and 300 6-36 propjet bombers squat on their ramps on 24-hour alert, with tanks topped with fuel and nuclear weapons preloaded. SAC's new commander, General Thomas Sarsfield Power, has decreed that one-third of SAC's planes must be ready to take off within 15 minutes after an alarm. Nowhere...
Like a small, patient elephant, he stood there as they watched him, conscious of being the center of a crowded, shoulder-packed stare. He was short, squat, had on a brown, well-cut suit, two Red orders on the handkerchief pocket, and he held a glass of what appeared to be grapefruit juice. Now and then he would whisper conspiratorially to Bulganin or laugh over his shoulder to Mikoyan or talk with proper gravity to the beaming Egyptian War Minister. I elbowed my way in like a diplomat and began working with two cameras strung around my neck. Good-humoredly...