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...almost 500 boats, and is already ten times the size of Germany's wolf pack at the outbreak of World War II. Very soon, new Soviet boats will have missile capacity; Central Intelligence Agency Chief Allen Dulles estimates that ten missile-carrying subs could destroy 1,600 sq. mi. of the U.S. seaboard's industrial complex unless anti-submarine defenses stop them. Admiral Thach's job: to renovate an antisub screen that has become rusty with inadequate equipment, antiquated tactics and too much Navy attention to supercarriers...
...March 25 The West Indies will take an important step on the road to self-government. The federation of the onetime British colonies of Jamaica, Trinidad, Barbados and seven other main islands-8,000 sq. mi. of land and 3,000,000 people sprawled over 1,500 miles of Caribbean Sea-will hold its first election, choose the first West Indies Parliament, which will be opened April 22 with Princess Margaret representing Queen Elizabeth...
...islands went into the final week of the campaign, a growing awareness of the realities confronting the new state-too many people and too little income (e.g., 1,382 people per sq. mi. in Barbados have a per-capita income of $239 a year)-dampened fiery nationalist expectations of years past. Observers predicted only a 40-60% turnout of eligible voters, and the Jamaica Times called the campaign "dreary." Admitted Probable Prime Minister Adams: "The federal government is going to be weak with a chicken-feed budget...
Split Claims. A month ago Nasser fired off a note to the Sudanese government of Premier Abdalla Khalil demanding that the Sudan immediately hand over to Egypt 1) a 6,700-sq. mi. triangle of desert and scrub hills around Halaib on the Red Sea, 2) a 90-sq. mi. finger of land in the Nile River valley near the interior town of Wadi Haifa. Actually, Nasser had a legal case for his claim. After Lord Kitchener's forces (including a young subaltern lancer named Winston Churchill) defeated the Sudan's Dervishes at Omdurman in 1898, Egypt...
Bingo's overnight success fits right in with TV's new rage for parlor games, which are cheap to produce and pull in good ratings. This week NBC will replace its Arlene Francis Show with a new game called Dough-Re-Mi. CBS is planning to put on Win-Go instead of The Eve Arden Show, will switch from Dick and the Duchess to Lucky Dollar, is also grooming three other games...