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...examination of the U.N.'s five major crises - Iran, Suez, Korea, Cuba and the Congo - including interviews with Trygve Lie, U Thant, Adlai Stevenson, Henry Cabot Lodge and others...
...giraffe. Britain's Stirling Moss, essaying a backwoods comeback after the near-fatal accident that forced his retirement from the Grand Prix circuit three years ago, condescended to navigate for Brother-in-Law Erik Carlsson, and lost him cold-amid hot argument-somewhere west of Suez. Stirling's sister, Pat Moss Carlsson, was running second when she tried to overtake a truck in her Swedish Saab. The truck was disinclined; Pat was dislocated...
Died. Sir Pierson Dixon, 60, donnish, unflappable diplomat, spare-time belle-lettrist and novelist, who as Britain's permanent representative to the U.N. (1954-60) coolly defended his nation in the furious 1956 debate over Suez, thereafter served as Ambassador to France (until February), playing a major role in the abortive negotiations for Britain's entry into the Common Market, after which he remarked sadly that reasoning with De Gaulle was "like trying to get through to a man wearing a suit of armor"; at Egham, Surrey...
...Baltic, ranks as one of the world's longest waterways. The route will cut the average shipping time from Iran to Germany from 50 to 25 days. It will slice 2,700 miles from the previous circuitous route, which took ships through the Atlantic, the Mediterranean, the Suez Canal, the Red Sea, the Arabian Sea and the Persian Gulf...
...Full Circle he sought to answer his Suez critics by shifting the blame to them. He had been right, Eden insisted, and charged the U.S.'s John Foster Dulles with misleading him into assuming that the U.S. would support the use of force in making Nasser "disgorge" the canal. Facing the Dictators traced Eden government years from election to Parliament in 1923 to his resignation, in 1938, as Foreign Secretary to Neville Chamberlain, whose appeasement policy appalled...