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...Lebanon. And he could also pursue his studies at Tito's knee in the perilous and racking business of how to run a revolution with Moscow's approbation and material help-but without letting the Russians take him over. After lolling on the beach soaking up the shrewd master's useful counsel on the dangerous game that 66-year-old Tito has played with eminent success, President Nasser last week boarded ex-King Farouk's old yacht for a slow voyage home...
...Shrewd, poker-faced Arkady Sobolev of the Soviet Union blustered that the whole U.S. position was "insolvent" on the face of it. The troop landings, he pointed out, had come not as the result of anything that happened inside Lebanon, but were triggered by the coup in Iraq. The U.S. action, therefore, was a "gross intervention into the domestic affairs of the states in this area." Sobolev demanded the immediate withdrawal of the marines...
...such shrewd tactics, the company, which the Tishman family controls with nearly 50% of the 1,940,000 shares of common stock, netted $4,033,975 in 1957, although the net profit for its first half of this year is down to $1,250,000. Tishman's goal is to build enough properties so that most or all the firm's profits will eventually come from rentals, make it immune to ups and downs in the market for new building. Says Norman Tishman: "When the day comes that we don't care whether we make a sale...
...agreed in advance to a ban on nuclear tests. The U.S. and its allies (Britain, France, Canada), rejecting this Soviet propaganda gambit, ordered their scientists to hold the conference among themselves if the Communist delegates (from Russia, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Rumania) failed to show up. This proved to be a shrewd move: the Communists arrived suddenly, and the conference began on schedule and with brightened hopes...
...women did better: California's pesky 5-ft. 1-in. mite, Mimi Arnold, 19, startled the crowd with a savage 10-8, 6-3 mauling of Britain's ballyhooed six-footer, Christine Truman. Then Arnold lost in the quarterfinals to Mme. Suzi Kormoczi, 33, the shrewd Hungarian typist. That pinned remaining U.S. hopes, as usual these days, on poker-faced Althea Gibson, 30. In the final, Althea efficiently walked over Britain's Angela Mortimer 8-6, 6-2. But nowhere was there a sign of that combustible quality that lights the eye of U.S. Pro Promoter Jack...