... NEWS SUMMARY The Cyprus crisis; post-mutiny operations in Africa; Port Talbot goes back to work; coup in South Vietnam CYPRUS By early last Monday the situation in Cyprus was still obscure. Mr Spyros Kyprianou and Mr Glafcos Clerides, Greek-Cypriot delegates to the London conference, who had returned to Nicosia, were flying back to Britain with President Markarios's reply to the Anglo-US ...

... What next in Africa? is the question being currently asked in relation to the emergent continent. Events have been moving so precipitately in East Africa and elsewhere, that it is hard enough to grasp what is and has been happening. It is in an understanding of the present that we must look for clues to the future. Events have moved quickly, but it is a fallacy to claim that many of the ...

... Top: Winners of the Figure Skating Cham pionship in the Ice Stadium were a Russian pair, LudmillaBelousovaand Oleg Protopopov Above: At the ninth Winter Olympic Games at Bergisel, near Innsbruck, Egon Zimmerman sends a wake of snow flying as he completes the downhill race. Before a crowd of 40,000 spectators the 24-year-old Austrian covered the two-mile course in 2 mins. 18-16 sees., winning ...

... Cambodia, land of elephant forests, Budd hist temples, yellow-garbed monks and tall- hatted dancing girls, is also the land of one of South East Asia's most enthusiastic neutrals, Prince Norodom Sihanouk. The oft-repeated desire of the Prince, Cambodia's head of state, that the neutrality of his country should be guaranteed internationally is among the special concerns of Mr R. A. Butler, ...

... GABOR DENES At ten o'clock this Saturday morning a fleet of very small cruising yachts, anything up to 20 or even more in number, will be seen crossing the line of the Royal Albert YC at Southsea at the start of a race to the Nab and Poole Bar. The total length of the course is 55 miles. This does not appear on the face of it a very long race, compared to the average RORC race, but it could be ...

... by P. GLENNIE-SMITH, M.A., Director, British Footwear Manufacturers' Federation Like many others, our footwear industry is passing through a second industrial revolution. This started in the 1950's and it is difficult to forecast where it will end. Several important factors are at work--the impact of fashion, the introduction of completely new materials and techniques and changes in the ...

... by Ganymede I was travelling to Lisbon by BEA Comet. Our departure had been delayed by a few minutes for technical reasons, and having missed our turn we had to queue for a few more minutes to get on the runway. While still on the ground, the steward came along to ask me what I would like to drink, for he was going to start serving as soon as we were airborne. The time was mid-morning, so I ...

... @ 4 Mr Kaunda wins in Northern Rhodesia In Lusaka, capital of Northern Rhodesia, Mr Kenneth Kaunda (above) has led his party, the United National Inde pendence Party, to vic tory in the General Elec tion. Heavy rain did not daunt voters listening to a UNIP speaker at an election rally (right). By last weekend, with some returns yet to be made from remote areas, UNIP had won 54 seats in the ...

... More than anything else, Canada is a forest country. Over half its vast total is wooded with the softwood conifers that directly and indirectly contribute a major portion of the income of the Canadian people. The forests are the source of the raw material for pulp and paper, and of saw logs for lumber. The forests of Canada extend in a belt from 600 to 1,000 miles wide from the Atlantic ...

... COURTENAY EDWARDS Petrol, the life blood of motoring and the darling of the Treasury, has been prominently in the news in recent weeks. The Consumers' Association has been taking a close look at it, for instance, and in its magazine Which? has declared that in extensive tests it found little difference between the various brands; and that there is little point in buying a grade of petrol more ...

... Somebody has managed to get a nearly full glass of beer to stand on the back of the seat and across the rim of the glass lies his ballpoint pen steady as a rock! he says with satisfaction and we are all full of admiration. The admiration is deserved, for we are about 36,000 feet up, over the blue Mediterranean somewhere between Majorca and Algiers. There is no feeling of any sort of ...

... BRIAN VESEY-FITZGERALD My interest in clocks must have started, as a very small boy, with my father's timepieces. I do not know if that is the correct name for these instruments. At any rate, they were not watches in the modern sense; for they were wound up with little keys which you inserted into a hole at the back. My father had two: a gold one, which had the hole at the back covered with ...