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Take It or Leave It. To Makarios' suite at the Dorchester Hotel went Sir Hugh Foot, the British Governor of Cyprus, who has gained Makarios' confidence. For 90 minutes Foot made an urgent and eloquent plea to Makarios to summon up the courage to argue back with his advisers...
...judgment a book is obscene. Under a bill before Parliament since 1955, introduced by Author and Labor M.P. Roy Jenkins, the law would be modified to allow prosecution only if a book as a whole, rather than in individual passages, is judged obscene, would also allow the defense to summon expert witnesses on literary merit...
...very tired of us." Castro led a revolution against personal government and for restoring a rule of law; since the date of his victory, he has built a government based largely on his personality, while his men have violated his country's basic law. If he can summon maturity and seriousness, the bloody events of last week may yet turn out to be what Puerto Rico's Muñoz Marin thinks they are: "A bad thing happening in the midst of a great thing." If not, the seeds of hate sown in the execution ditches will sprout...
...death and Beria's liquidation, Serov slid into the top security job in 1954. The "collective leadership" of the day wanted to downgrade the police, and Serov knew how to make himself inconspicuous. But Western eyes saw the sandy-haired little man snapping his fingers to summon a Soviet ambassador during B. and K.'s visit to India (TIME, Dec. 19, 1955). When he appeared in Britain in 1956 to prepare security measures there for the touring pair, the British press denounced him so vehemently as "Ivan the Terrible" and "Butcher Serov" that he was left behind...
Antrhopologists are delighted with his ablity to summon up detailed accounts of Amarakaire customs; a zoologist stopped by to peer in astonishment at Pink Owls. Says Tobias, now 37 and working in a Manhattan silk screen company to piece out his income: "I was never afraid. In fact, I was delighted to be by myself in a world so completely remvoed from civilization. I accepted the jungle without reservation, and in return it accepted...