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...debacle has made Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser "stronger than ever," it did not look that way last week in Cairo. The exhilaration of Egypt's political victory, after military defeat by the British, French and Israelis, has ended. The country is settling back into a chilling swamp of unsolved problems. Nasser finds himself in need of pulling something out of his hat-something as spectacular as his Communist arms deal or his seizure of the canal company. But the rabbits left in his hat, if any, are skimpier. What can he do now to stir the popular...
Died. Ruth Draper, 72, who dazzled New York and London audiences with her lavishly peopled monologues for more than 40 years, impersonated a Scottish immigrant, Maine swamp Yankees and rubbernecking American tourists with sympathetic satire; in her sleep, five days after she opened a four-week Broadway engagement; in Manhattan...
Otis Dozier's themes-grasshoppers and bulls, Indian corn in the hot summer fields, a humid-swamp night scene-can be readily identified by any Texan. But his grasshopper is not just a laboratory specimen; it is a wondrous creature of heat and noise. When he painted Brahma Bull, Dozier did not try to provide a guessing game for Texas cattlemen adept at estimating values on the hoof, but to capture "the thing you always feel about a bull. He's the most powerful of the animal kingdom, and he seems to know it." In Place...
...both to the huge number of Negro voters who supported it this year and to its heritage of Lincoln. Vice President Nixon, as the Senate's presiding officer, and Minority Leader Knowland are able to provide the leadership if the President will not. They can carry enough votes to swamp Majority Leader Johnson if they wish, and, with liberal Democratic support, end the filibuster...
...northern Britain. Plant remains of this date show that the country was open, arctic tundra with scattered patches of silver birch. Sea level was much lower. Peat dredged from the bottom of the North Sea shows that the southern two-thirds of its basin was filled by a chilly swamp connecting Britain with the continent, from Denmark to France...