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Cyprus' union with Greece in the near future. Every new troop transport arriving at Nicosia last week underlined the basic reason-namely, that Britain feels it must have a secure eastern Mediterranean base from which to safeguard its Middle East interests...
Into the center's sharply modern $250,000 plant (precast concrete, painted white with pastel designs) will troop 40 U.S. executives next month. Entrance requirements: each businessman must agree to stay at least two weeks; each must have a thorough physical exam at home proving that he is basically healthy. The two-week stay will cost $690; wives may take a separate course...
...handsome fees, e.g., from LIFE and Doubleday for his bestselling memoirs, from King Features for his European series. His main office chores: answering the weekly mail, which ranges from 2,000 to 7,000 letters, autographing his Memoirs, and-increasingly with the convention drawing closer-greeting Democratic visitors who troop in to see him-some old friends, some on the make, some on the wane...
...Nasser's action was matched by an acute awareness of a vital interest involved. The British government sent flattops, cruisers and squadrons of jet bombers flying off to the eastern Mediterranean, and at week's end thou sands of reserves, hastily called from their summer pursuits, boarded troop transports bound from Britain for Cyprus. A British committee even banned Egyptian swimmers (including last year's winner) from the annual Channel race...
...originally engendered violent outbursts of indignation. And no small part of it was aimed at Ibsen for daring to bring a clergyman on stage. But Ibsen went still further and made him the butt of satire, epitomized by the fact that the pastor has twelve children, eight of whom troop back and forth through the set--all of them girls--and his wife is again pregnant (and will doubtless present him with a thirteenth girl...