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...idylls grew like plants in the soil f ancient Greece...
...many crises to permit any bold initiatives in Washington's dealings with either allies or foes. Soviet pressure on Berlin was a constant threat. Relations with Castro's Cuba continued to deteriorate. Laos tottered, the Congo fell apart, and Gary Powers' spy plane crashed on Soviet soil. With the U-2 fell whatever hopes Herter still held for the Paris summit conference. When he left office, one aide recalls, he was "an unhappy...
...China, Burma, Thailand, Cambodia, and North and South Viet Nam. Through the eastern half of Laos, controlled by the Pathet Lao, stretches the Ho Chi Minh trail, over which the North Vietnamese regularly infiltrate South Viet Nam. More than 75,000 North Vietnamese troops are now on Laotian soil, between 20,000 and 30,000 of them combat troops and the rest antiaircraft units, engineers and construction workers. North Vietnamese troops operating in South Viet Nam frequently use Laos as a refuge to escape from attack, and some of them mix with the Pathet Lao during periodic attacks...
...longer would the long black limousines, flags fluttering from their fenders, thread their way along the elegant Avenue Foch to the organization's austere glass-and-steel headquarters. Charles de Gaulle had withdrawn France from NATO's military commands and ordered NATO forces to leave French soil by next April. Consequently, the military arm of NATO was moving to a village in southern Belgium; the civil arm to some prefabricated buildings near Brussels' airport...
...Pharaohs to the present day (see cut, opening page). It is full of odd nuggets of information, from the fact that ladies of the Middle Ages often bathed nude before guests in their gardens to the date of the first modern lawn mower: 1830. Fine reading for soil-sports...