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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...another way that should stand him in good stead in the Pentagon: he is a shrewd and lucky poker player with a tested wizardry for figuring the odds on any hand. "You're better off," said a poorer but wiser Convair colleague, "to give him your paycheck to start, and stay out of the game...
...being more moderate these days anyway, tried reasonable compromise on his southern neighbor, the Sudan. It worked. Last week the two nations finally got together over the division of the waters of the Nile. Nasser had urgent reasons for settling the long dispute: this month Soviet engineers arrive to start work on the first stage of the huge Aswan High Dam project-a scheme designed to expand Egypt's farmland by 30% and multiply its electric power eightfold. Since the Nile travels 1,900 miles through the Sudan before reaching Egypt, the Sudanese were strategically placed...
...Israel springing from which people arrived first in the country, Dayan, Peres and Ben-Gurion himself campaigned door to door through Tel Aviv slums. Cape Town-born Abba Eban, who had never lived in Israel before his return from the U.S. last summer, got off to an awkward start by turning up in statesman's coat and tie for a Mapai rally at which Ben-Gurion and everybody else on the platform wore open-necked shirts. As quickly as was diplomatically possible, Eban stripped to his shirtsleeves and scored a smashing comeback by appealing for votes with U.N.-style...
Almost from the start, the Syrians had had second thoughts about their impulsive merger. The job of whipping Syria into line was given to Interior Minister Abdel Hamid Serraj a ruthless local strongman who had wholeheartedly committed himself to Nasser. Serraj clapped hundreds of Communists into jail, tortured "recantations" out of hundreds more. He helped to reduce the once-powerful Baath Party to impotence,* slashed the number of Damascus dailies from 24 to a docile seven. But for all his secret agents, Serraj was still unable to dissuade his own country from its conviction that the union meant only economic...
...Munro's starting lineup will probably be without right halfback Charlie Steele, a stalwart on defense all season. Steele has a hyperextended leg that has not responded to treatment, and his status is doubtful. Bill Driver will start in Steele's absence...