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...Tribune had a scoop: the details of a draft treaty of friendship, commerce and navigation between the U.S. and Australia. The treaty, which has been in the works for five years, contained no vital secrets, but the affair was nevertheless alarming: it suggested that a high government official with access to the classified treaty had given the information to the Reds. In Parliament later, Australia's foreign minister, Richard Casey, admitted the leak. (Although Casey denied the connection, members' questions pointed to one John Burton, a former top official under Casey's Laborite predecessor, Herbert V. Evatt...
...living in the East zone but studying at West Berlin's universities were told that, unless they gave up their studies, they would lose their identity cards, without which life in divided Berlin is nearly impossible. Item: West Berliners who have vegetable gardens in Soviet territory were denied access to their plots...
Four years ago the Grant Foundation set aside funds to bring the "master teacher" to Harvard for a year of unrestricted study in the field of education. The recipients of the awards were to be allowed "free access to the resources of the University, with a program individually designed, under an adviser in the Faculty of Education. . . . If he should later desire to pursue the doctorate program it is to be expected that most of his year's work will have been appropriate, but it is not anticipated that these funds will be used to encourage future study...
Wagdi is chief correspondent for Al Ahram, Cairo daily, and, as one of Egypt's most respected reporters, has easy access to high officials. Kavoussi once worked for the. London Daily Express, has a sound knowledge of English. Other part-time correspondents in the Middle East are Riza Chandir in Istanbul, who operates his own Turkish news agency; Abu Said el Riche in Beirut, onetime correspondent for the London Daily Mail; Ernest Main on Cyprus and Monica Dehn in Israel. In addition to these, a wide network of observers maintains a flow of suggested stories to the Beirut headquarters...
...yielding soil of the fortune made from the sales of Britain's best-known laxative that the extraordinary personality of Sir Thomas Beecham, conductor, impresario and wit, has flowered and flourished. Although his access to the proceeds of that fortune has been progressively limited, it has been an important factor in the development, not only of his truly remarkable musical gifts, but also of all the extravagance, exuberance and effervescence of a rich and sensitive but irrepressible and boisterous nature. He is utterly free from cant and convention, and his fortunate combination of natural and material endowments has enabled...