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...days of Peter the Great. Its attraction for the Communists in the Kremlin is even greater than it ever was for the Czars. The world's fourth largest exporter of oil, Iran, as a member of CENTO (formerly the Baghdad Pact,), is an essential link in the defensive tier along Russia's southern border. The U.S. has poured more than $800 million into Iran since World War II. By bringing Iran under its influence, Russia would knock out the last anti-Communist alliance in the vast area between Western Europe and the Far East, and would acquire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: Reformer in Shako | 9/12/1960 | See Source »

Answering an obviously sympathetic audience, the African dodged questions on the role of the Arab northern tier in a pan-African future, and possible tribal and regional conflicts in the developing continent. When a girl asked if Communism posed a threat to Uganda and what was being done to combat its influence, others in the audience hissed, and Mukasa smilingly said that Communism finds "no fertile ground" in his country...

Author: By Craig K. Comstock, | Title: African Describes 'Personality' of Dark Continent | 8/4/1960 | See Source »

...last great frontier of airline expansion," a CAB examiner recommended last week that National and Delta get new transcontinental routes across the southern tier of states. To National go routes from Florida to California; Delta will fly from Atlanta to California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Regulatory Statesmanship | 7/4/1960 | See Source »

...with the Queen and Prince Philip, workmen completed the 60-foot arch of roses through which the procession will pass. The 2,500 troops who will line the march rehearsed their duties and boned up on the eleven pages of orders of the day. Just opposite Westminster Abbey rose tier on tier of seats for those willing to pay $15 to $75 for a closeup view. An official tersely admitted that, so far, there is "nothing like a rush" to buy, and advertisements have been placed in German, Italian and French newspapers in the hope of unloading tickets on foreigners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Last Weekend | 5/9/1960 | See Source »

...antique dealers of Portobello Road, sparkled with the vitality of the underworld he has taken for his own. "One specializes in the people nearest one's personal archetype," says Author Mankowitz, "dealers, agents, toughies, whores, pimps, gamblers, all freelances like myself-people who work in a mètier, vestiges of primitive capitalism. These are my people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER ABROAD: More English Than the English? | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

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