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When Canada's Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent left last month on his round-the-world tour (TIME, Feb. 15), Associate Editor Edwin Copps of TIME'S Canada section was assigned to cover part of the trip. Rather than take the entire six-week tour. Copps flew west to pick up the Prime Minister and party at the halfway point, follow him through India and Ceylon and to the Canadian troops in Korea. The result was some good firsthand reporting and a thorough workout for Copps...
...National Defense Act also specifically limits the Secretary of Defense in his authority over summer training camps. Although the Defense Department is given the power to set up ROTC camps, it is legally forbidden to require more than six-week training periods except in time of national emergency...
...everything he could beg, buy and demand-tiny telescopes with diamond sprays, priceless relics of Pharaonic culture, a 100blade knife, an outstanding coin collection, a Nazi marshal's gaudy baton. Egypt's revolutionary regime was putting all of it-treasure and trash-on the block in a six-week sale. It was the biggest mass merchandising of such bric-a-brac in nearly two centuries. Egypt needs the money for a hydroelectric dam and for land reform...
This fall some communities in the state will have their own March of Books, with citizens going from door to door to ask for contributions. Kentucky theaters will put on special matinees, charge two book as the price of admission. Four Kentucky colleges are talking of special six-week courses for new driver-librarians. By next spring, Mrs. Bingham expects that Kentucky will at last have as good a library service as any state in the Union. After all. says she, "good books, next to good parents, are singly the most powerful educative force in the world...
...Matisse, smoldering Georges Rouault, sherbet-cool Georges Braque-and the least famous of the lot, Fernand Léger. The U.S. is getting to know Léger better this year, through a retrospective exhibition of his work arranged by Chicago's Art Institute. Last week, after a six-week stay in Chicago, the 125-item show opened at the San Francisco Museum of Art. Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art will have it in the fall...