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...lunge toward Suez or Cairo be ordered. The British maintained a tight security shutdown, and it was impossible for correspondents to judge the degree of activity at Akrotiri air base. Middle East headquarters of the Royal Air Force, which sits on an arid, dusty plain on the southernmost peninsula of the island. But at the east coast port of Famagusta ten ships were quietly and efficiently unloaded, their cargoes quickly moved out of the dock area. The French, less security-minded than the British, let it be known that a fleet of eight transports, with a capacity...
Britons sometimes like to forget that their proud island was once a mere peninsula of the European continent-a condition that, as geologists figure it, ceased only a short time ago. Dr. Harold Godwin of Cambridge has now estimated within a few centuries the date when the friendly sea broke through to form the English Channel and give Britain its freedom. It was 5000 B.C., says Dr. Godwin...
After 8000 B.C.. the climate grew steadily warmer, melting the remnants of ice. Warmth-demanding plants (e.g., oak, elm and alder) invaded the Britannic Peninsula. New animals and new tribes of men trooped across the marshes. The climate was probably almost as warm as today. "A bit chillier," hazards Dr. Godwin...
...France wanted the carrying of slaves by sea to be labeled "an act of piracy"1-a move that would permit search and seizure of suspected slave ships. Most directly affected by this proposal was Saudi Arabia, which, with the small-fry nations around it on the Arabian Peninsula, constitutes the only area of the world where slavery survives in its classic form. To meet the demand of oil-rich Saudis, who are prepared to pay up to $1,000 for a likely young Arab girl, traders annually import some 30,000 slaves from
...clerked in a grocery and bakery. When Art was five his father, anxious for a better job, made the first of a series of moves that took the family from one Minnesota town to another and eventually west to Washington, where Bjarne bought a genreal store on the Olympic Peninsula and wired his family waiting in Minnesota to "come...