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...torrent finally petered out, the exhausted Menon held the alltime U.N. record for a single speech-7 hours 48 minutes. It was a performance worthy of a Southern Senator, and had a purpose familiar to any Southern filibusterer hoping to frustrate the majority will. Menon was out to stall Security Council proceedings while India's moralizing Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru completed India's illegal annexation of most of the strategic state of Kashmir...
...Washington, U.S. officials kept up their steady pressure on Egypt to curb its intransigence, e.g., Egyptian Ambassador Ahmed Hussein failed to win release of the more than $40 million in Egyptian assets frozen by the U.S. after Egypt nationalized the Suez. Similarly, the U.S. continued to stall on Egypt's month-old request to buy American surplus wheat with local currency and thus help shore up its sagging economy. Behind the American moves was a common denominator: the conviction that U.S.-Egyptian relations-political and economic-hinge on Colonel Nasser's willingness to help settle Mideast problems within...
...biggest hit was the biggest boat, the 53-ft. Wheeler cruiser with twin 285-h.p. diesels, wall-to-wall carpeting, two bathrooms, a stall shower, electric galley, and private staterooms for ten. Price: $110,000. The most versatile: Neptuna's $4,400 Sportsman, a new amphibious auto trailer with retractable wheels that sleeps four on land or sea. The fastest: Bellingham Shipyards' 100-m.p.h. Bikini with hydroplane fiber-glass hull, twin inboard engines firing at 430 h.p., and a price...
Eight-Year Stall. Unwilling to see these arbitrary policy powers ruled illegal, successive Demo-Christian governments managed for eight years to stall all moves toward establishment of the Constitutional Court. When the court finally came into existence, the government's fears were soon realized. In its first decision (TIME, June 25), the court unanimously declared unconstitutional Article 113 of the public security laws, which requires police permit for signs and posters. Then, in rapid order, the court struck down several other powers dear to the Italian police, among them confino (the power to banish citizens to remote areas without...
Daily at 5 a.m., the horse was stuffed into a stall heated to 105° F., subjected to half an hour's isolation in a dank fog of springwater steam. As if that were not enough, tubes were shoved into his mouth and vapor blown down his throat. Later, through a rubber mask over nostrils and mouth, he was forced to inhale more of the curative minerals. After an hour of cooling stall-walking, Pyrame was led out to the light and air, got his daily ration of Bourboulien water, fresh from the spring...