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...nearly two weeks-until the National Assembly dispersed for vacation-France's canny Foreign Minister Georges Bidault kept a document locked up in his desk. Then, one day last week, he took out the paper, got Premier Laniel to summon the Cabinet to consider it. It contained Britain's terms for "associating" with the proposed European Defense Community, an association which Paris demanded as one of three major preconditions to France's final decisions...
...formalities in the Teheran mosque gave the government more than the quorum of Deputies needed to summon the Majlis into session-the first since it was dissolved by would-be Dictator Mossadegh in August 1953. Desperate to get Iran's major resource, oil, into world markets after 30 months of near-bankruptcy, Premier Zahedi let it be known that the parliament's first big assignment will be to ratify a new oil agreement with Western companies...
...practice, any one of the hemisphere's foreign offices can now legally call a dangerous Communist penetration in another nation to the attention of the Organization of American States. The O.A.S. will investigate, and may summon all nations to consultation. By a two-thirds vote, the nations may take whatever action (e.g., admonitions, economic sanctions or sterner measures) seems advisable...
This year, as Columbia celebrated its 200th anniversary, it could summon scholars from all over the world to attend its year-long series of conferences and convocations. But in spite of its international prestige, it has never lost its early sense that the city is its "proper place," nor has it forgotten that its special character is largely a matter of location. It is an Ivy Leaguer minus the ivy, an ivory tower without ivory, a polyglot campus of brick and stone that still draws two-thirds of its undergraduates from a radius of less than 100 miles. Its bicentennial...
...boiling in the croup kettle that Irene Lingo was fixing for her five-month-old daughter, Laura Jean, when the baby kicked it over. The scalding liquid burned Laura Jean's back and one arm. Mrs. Lingo wiped her off with a towel, ran two blocks to summon her brother-in-law with his car, and in a few minutes presented the baby at the emergency room of small (112 beds) Woodlawn Hospital on Chicago's South Side...