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Peabody also pointed to the lapse of two or three years that usually occurs before the governor can appoint heads of State Departments, since their offices are not co-terminus with his. "Imagine Kennedy's having to function with an Eisenhower cabinet," he challenged...
...wake of the savage French retaliation, Bourguiba was momentarily shocked into silence. Then he rallied, charged that the French refusal to hand over Bizerte was "dictated by a persistence of colonial mentality and by De Gaulle's own obsession with grandeur." He ordered the French oil pipeline terminus at La Skhira seized, and announced that Tunisia would fight on, "even if the whole world turns against us." Volunteers from "friendly countries" were welcome, said Bourguiba, including those offered by Egypt's Nasser, his old archenemy. His deputy, Bahi Ladgham, grimly summoned U.S. Ambassador Walter Walmsley and declared...
...streamline E.N.I.'s petroleum distribution system, Mattei is building a pipeline from Genoa to Switzerland and on beyond into West Germany. He also plans a line from Venice to Wiener Neustadt in Austria, only 40 miles from the terminus of a projected Soviet line. Rumors-which Mattei neither confirms nor denies -have it that he plans to link his system directly to the Soviets...
Nearness to the huge Mesabi iron-ore range and Midwestern grain fields has made Duluth, the western terminus of the St. Lawrence Seaway, one of the busiest ports in the U.S. But Duluth (pop. 106,-800) has another asset, which is making its own unique contribution to the growth of the thriving city: four big scholarship funds, including two in operation for the first time this year. They have raised the educational level of its high school system, and will support 286 Minnesota students on college scholarships this year, of whom all but 72 are graduates of Duluth high schools...
Earlier in the week, government landing parties had seized control of islands dotting the mouth of the Siak River, and captured the oil terminus of Dumai. On Bengkalis Island a rebel platoon watched interestedly as an army transport steamed leisurely up to the dock like an excursion steamer, tied up, and disgorged a file of government troops who sauntered down the gangplank like tourists. The rebel platoon leader surrendered and everyone sat down...