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...returned to the U.S., underwent long medical examination in a New York hospital. The experts' verdict: she had the symptoms of serious anemia and of extreme nervous fatigue. Feeling better after two months in the U.S., she went back to Rome to face the full work load. In a short time, all the symptoms reappeared and some new and frightening ones developed. Her fingernails became brittle, broke at a slight tap. She began to lose blonde hair by the brushful. Her teeth were noticeably loosening. Worst of all for a diplomat, she had become irritable. She was forced...
...turned out, 44-passenger, 335-m.p.h. Viscounts were a hit from the start. With big picture windows, less noise and vibration than piston-engined planes, the Viscounts operated up to 85% of full load for the first few months, have averaged 70% in their first full year v. an average 64% load factor for the rest of the industry. Replacing Lockheed Constellations with Viscounts on the Chicago-Washington run, Capital tripled its business, carried 33,802 passengers from February through May 1956 v. 11,322 passengers during the same period of 1955. Traffic on the New York-Pittsburgh...
Though he had rested well in his final week at the hospital, the President had slowly taken on some of his old work load. One piece of business that demanded decision was the approaching visit (on July 7) of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. An Indian emissary had informed the White House that Nehru fully expected to talk out with the President a vast variety of global subjects, e.g., the Communist new look, the admission of Red China to the United Nations. Nehru had further made it clear that he was not interested in seeing Ike only for a brief visit...
Everywhere business on the notoriously rickety second-class buses is declining in favor of new completos (first-class buses). Wealthy Mexicans jam the seashore resorts, or splash in heated swimming pools in the high, cool capital. Long trains chuff north through Sonora and Chihuahua to load record wheat crops...
...evening last week commandos of the Royal Marines waited silently on the darkening slopes of Cyprus' 6,000-ft. Troodos Mountains. Peering through binoculars they watched a village woman .slowly climb a pine-covered hillside, drop her bulky load and return the way she had come. Sten guns at the ready, the marines in camouflaged battledress leaped swiftly from their lookout and arrived just in time to round up seven E.O.K.A. terrorists who had moved down to collect their supplies...