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...church or in secular parliament, the assent of everybody was esteemed as the ideal. "Unanimity was sought," wrote J. Roland Pennock in the American Political Science Review, "even if it could be obtained only by the process of wearing down and shouting down the dissenters-or by resort to threats or physical force...
...fantastic, record-setting July rainfall. More than a million Britons, or about a quarter of those who normally go abroad for their summer vacations, are holidaying at home. Millions of Frenchmen are staying home. Those Europeans who are traveling at home are forsaking more expensive resort hotels in favor of pensions and campgrounds...
Embarrassing Loss. One of the most dangerous places for foreign non-combatants was the resort of Kyrenia, where Turkish forces waded ashore to attack Greeks holed up in the ancient Byzantine waterfront fortress and the police station. TIME Correspondent William Marmon and TIME Photographer David Rubinger joined 300 tourists and alien residents who had taken shelter in the Castellis Dome Hotel. Many were British, and with typical cool they quickly formed a twelve-man committee to organize food supplies, provide protection and give medical care. One of the committee's first moves was to close the Dome...
Marmon and Rubinger were among the hundreds of foreigners rescued from the resort by British ships. By then, Turkish soldiers were in control of Kyrenia, formerly a Greek Cypriot enclave...
...Blake Edwards' adaptation of Evelyn Anthony's novel, Sharif is cast as an allegedly dashing Soviet spy named Sverdlov. Liberal views and a developing taste for high-living Western ways make him a prime candidate for the Lubyanka prison. Vacationing at a Caribbean resort, he meets Judith Farrow (Julie Andrews), secretary to a well-placed British official. Omar claims it is love at first sight. She thinks he is just after a quick roll in the hay. A British intelligence officer - crabbily, almost picture-savingly played by Anthony Quayle - insists that Sharif is trying to recruit...