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...accomplish its delicate mission Washington sent its ablest Middle East specialist, Career Ambassador Loy Henderson, at the head of a topflight delegation of 23 observers to a Baghdad Pact council meeting in Teheran. The pact's five members-Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan and Britain-were ready with a program that accented economic rather than military measures. Henderson, backed by President Eisenhower's request for $100 million from Congress for special Middle East aid, pitched right in. Sample projects agreed on: a joint five-nation study for development of the Tigris-Euphrates basin's water resources, a joint...
Among Britain's topflight political cartoonists, L. G. (for Leslie Gilbert) Illingworth, 53, of Punch and London's Daily Mail, was long regarded as one of the best draftsmen, but weak on ideas. In recent months he has gained new attention by his work for Punch, where the satiric ideas of Editor Malcolm Muggeridge often guide the Illingworth hand. A recent Illingworth-Muggeridge view of British politics showed Prime Minister Eden and Opposition Leader Hugh Gaitskell, both dressed as Nero, saying to each other: "I can fiddle a damned sight better than you." Other favorite targets have included...
...prizes given to U.S. architects for buildings of the year are the annual awards of the 11,000-member American Institute of Architects. To pick this year's winners, a jury of five topflight architects, including Eero Saarinen (TIME, March 19) and Pietro Belluschi, dean of M.I.T.'s School of Architecture, thumbed through more than 200 sets of plans and photographs before they made their choice. The runaway winners, announced in Washington this week: the San Francisco firm of Wurster, Bernardi & Emmons, which not only got a First Honor Award for its $258,000 "Thinkers' Shangri...
More and more, attention turns on the missiles race between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. Last week Defense Secretary Charles Erwin Wilson moved to strengthen the U.S. position. He appointed a topflight scientist to head the nation's missile program, then handed him the tools he will need...
...France. Unlike most daydreamers, Dassault was equipped with the talent and drive to turn fantasy into reality. At 23, only two years out of aeronautical school, he designed the propeller for the famed Spad fighter of World War I. At 60 he designed and built France's first topflight jet fighter, the sweptwing, transonic Mystère. Last week Dassault, now 64, showed off his latest marvel, the Mirage, a lightweight, 1,000-m.p.h. interceptor...