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...most highly fortified and guarded pieces of real estate in Europe is a patch of ground where the borders of Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and Greece meet in the wild Belasica Mountains overlooking the Struma and Strumica river valleys, one of the historic invasion routes to the Aegean Sea. There, one sunlit morning last week, Greek Lieut. Vassili Arkoudas, on duty in the most forward of the Greek outposts, was startled by the sound of heavy antiaircraft fire...
...strength comes partly from Director Jacques Dupont's almost matter-of-fact attention to reinforcing detail: a mustached machine-gunner tensely wetting his lips as he waits for his comrades to advance; the primitive clutter of a front-line trench. It flashes with moments of strange, sunlit beauty that almost belie the shocking truth of man diligently preoccupied with killing man. There are also lighter moments-with Gallic, wine-happy R & Rs (Rest and Recuperators) in Japan. But Director Dupont never strays far from the terrible business that carried him, the French battalion and the tens of thousands...
...sunlit Yellow Room of Panama's presidential residence last week, representatives of the U.S. and Panama signed a treaty that the U.S. ambassador called "a monument to the enduring fame" of assassinated President José Antonio Remón (TIME, Jan. 17). A major revision of the Panama Canal pact of 1903, the treaty was largely Remon's handiwork. He first talked it over with President Eisenhower in Washington 16 months ago, kept watch on negotiations, obtained terms highly favorable to his country. Among other things, Panama gets: 1) an increase from...
...round the earth. For this important voyage, poor Egyptians had to make do with little clay boats, but in the case of a Pharaoh, the navigation of his soul called for elaborate equipment. Royal funerary ships were generally built in pairs, one for the daytime voyage over the sunlit land, the other to follow the sun under the earth at night...
...might circle near the equator, invisible to most of the world's observatories. In any case, it would spend nearly half its time in the shadow of the earth, where it would be invisible. Most of the rest of the time it would be passing over the sunlit earth, and would look no brighter at best than a tiny fragment of the moon as seen by day. Best time to look for a small satellite would be at dawn or dusk, when it would be shining brightly above the dim-lit earth...