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Freedom Must Wait. Far more serious an objection to the Greeks than the elephant traps in Lord Radcliffe's constitution was the fact that the British proposals made no real concession to the basic Greek Cypriot demand for self-determination, i.e., union with Greece. To have made any such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CYPRUS: Proposed Constitution | 12/31/1956 | See Source »

CO² Menace. Another atmospheric variable is carbon dioxide. CO² is comparatively plentiful downwind from industrial areas such as the Ruhr, and there is a good possibility that man's fires and engines are adding so much of it to the atmosphere that the world's climate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Man's Milieu | 12/17/1956 | See Source »

Early one morning last week at Nicosia Central Prison, a low-walled building of yellow sandstone hidden among dusty eucalyptus trees, the nooses were hung, the traps set to deal out the stern punishment. With Koutsoftas and Panayides on the scaffold stood 23-year-old Stelios Mavrommatis, sentenced to death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CYPRUS: An Eye for an Eye | 10/1/1956 | See Source »

This week a dozen airplanes will start spraying 190,000 acres of the gold coast with malathion, a chemical that kills insects but is not deadly to humans, birds or animals. Jeeps with blowers will fog infested trees. The ground on infested property will be treated to kill the larvae...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Invading Medfly | 6/18/1956 | See Source »

The musical world has no obstacle course so packed with tortures, traps and terrors as Brussels' Queen Elisabeth Concours.* Last month 59 young, healthy pianists from 20 countries turned up to compete for world renown. By last week a dozen enervated ghosts were left to ache up to the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Trial by Music | 6/11/1956 | See Source »

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