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This week, as TIME marks its 37th birthday (first issue date: March 3, 1923), 544,000 copies of TIME'S four international editions will be air-speeded everywhere in the free world-sending TIME'S total worldwide circulation to a new high: more than 3,000,000, with an estimated readership of 12,500,000 in 121 countries...
...international editions are printed at plants in Tokyo, Melbourne, Havana, Paris and Chicago. In the 15 postwar years since we began printing overseas for civilians, TIME has become a familiar sight on newsstands and in subscribers' homes the world over, now reaches most readers on or before the date of issue. But not without some difficulties. TIME has been banned, burned and bedeviled in one way or another in 37 countries over the past 15 years...
...batches via bimonthly freighter from Nouméa in New Caledonia, TIME distribution men worked out a biweekly air-freight schedule; circulation in Tahiti has since climbed from 60 to 108. Readers in New Guinea, who long complained about slow service, now receive air-expressed copies before the date of issue, and today number a record 1,300. But one lone subscriber on remote Christmas Island still receives his copies by fishing schooner once every three months...
...days earlier the U.N.'s Dag Hammarskjold had abruptly issued a warning that the Middle East situation was again "deteriorating." The origins of the flare-up date from Israel's claustrophobic feeling of isolation in the Arab Middle East, and its conviction that the indifferent rest of the world has reneged on its promise to keep the Suez Canal open to Israeli shipping. Seizing upon a small incident on the Syrian border last month, Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion launched Israel's first reprisal raid since the 1956 Sinai invasion, blasting and leveling a Syrian village...
...each morning around 9, the dingy hall outside is filling with long lines of visitors, 200 or 300 a day, who want his attention on union matters, advice on jobs or marriages, or seek scholarships to American colleges under the Jackie Robinson-Harry Belafonte fund that he runs (to date it has sent 81 students to the U.S.). He tries to see all comers, and his office is usually swarming with people talking at the same time. He sits at his green metal desk, sleepy-eyed but taking it all in. Sometimes, to get away, he goes...