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...days after London proclaimed its long-awaited "self-government" plan for the rebellious island of Cyprus (TIME. Dec. 31), two travelers, giving their names as "Mr. Symes" and "Mr. Black," arrived by steamer at the lonely Seychelles Islands far out in the Indian Ocean. They wanted to see the exiled Greek Cypriot leader, Archbishop Makarios. Last week the British government confirmed that Mr. Symes and Mr. Black were in fact Derek Pearson of the Colonial Office and Cleon Tornaritis, former Attorney General of Cyprus, the highest government post ever held by a Cypriot (for holding it, Tornaritis...
Over heavily guarded back streets, a burly, black-skinned military officer and his family sped one evening last week to Port-au-Prince's airport. Their baggage, a dozen or more steamer trunks of clothes, personal possessions and perhaps a few bundles of useful banknotes, was hastily loaded on a vintage Boeing 307 transport. The family climbed in, the old plane flapped off to Jamaica, and Paul Magloire was finished as the President of Haiti...
High above the city, in the opulent aerie he modestly calls an office, the business executive of film and fiction does his skullwork amid trappings that would make Cleopatra's barge look like an excursion steamer. But in real life, the Executive Furniture Guild disclosed last week, the average executive suite is a dump...
Smiling tentatively at first, Nina Ponomareva let her features relax in a broad grin when she realized at last that the judge's words meant she could go home. Two hours later she was aboard the Russian steamer Vyacheslav Molotov, bound for the happy land where everyone is guilty, guilty...
...hope foreigners will realize, said one Israeli spokesman with an angry gesture toward the steamer lying at anchor in Haifa harbor, "that what Nasser did to the Panaghia today, he can do to British and American ships tomorrow." To the people of Israel at least, the 550-ton Greek freighter was floating proof that Egypt's Nasser, as master of the Suez Canal, could not be counted on to keep his promise not to interfere with the free passage of shipping. The Panaghia itself was not the only vessel to find its way barred as it tried to pass...