In the ancient city of Damascus - a nomination for president. The Syr i an parliament - putting up its candidate. The one M to head the new combined state of Syria and Egypt. No need tl't asking - who? Everybody knowing - it would be Nuaer, the Egyptian Strong Man. Syria joins Egypt in one goven,ment - Syrian President El Kuwatly, to step down and make way tor lu■er. The newa from Daaaacua was 1'laahed on to Cairo, February Twenty-Pir■t, and there•• no doubt or the Nault. laaaer - to be the only candidate, apparently. Buser - to be elected President of Syria-Bgypt. Today's dispatch adds tha\ the Crown Prince ot Yeaen has arrived in Cairo - to disc\18 plans #:linking the Y - with the Egyptian-Syrian federation. At Amman, capital of the kingdom or Jordan, the word 11 that a conference •111 be held - by leadera ot the Aftb atate■ that r•l1n outside the cOllb1nat1on. nn. llltN1n et Jordan, ling ,e11a1 ot Iraq, and lt1ng Saud ot Saudi Aru1i • to decicla on a line or action.-..,,Jh the tao• - ot thl •1• of VIS! CIDIUIY Ve■ t Oeraany, today, Mele an otter to Britain. A propoaal - to buy two-hundreCHmd-e1ghty - ■1111on dollve• worth or Br1t1 ■h al'llllllent - and pay tor the goods 1n adftnoe. Intended - u a aort or cc:aproa1■e in tlw contrown1 owr pQall_lt tor the ■upport or British troopa in a.many. London ~tlJuA. dr■1nt1ng • that 1e1t Clel'lllftJ ■bal~•• , w11bpart; ot * - Iba V.lt 0.1111111 • Ntualng. Br.tt11h aoldlera on tbl lh1ne ■--1 the Br1t11h tlnlnolal 11'11at1on inCNUiqlJ 41tf1cnalt,)f'1tb NhNnOI .. lo to•l&D exoblnp. So that•• tm point in. todar'• Veit ClelWlll otter. !ha cabinet of Chancellor Adenmalr - voting '81aft111Dua1J to place t10-hundred-tlnH1ghty-1l1111an dollar■ in thl Bink of Bngland. The aoney to reaain there - at the di■poaal of the London governMnt, without any pa,-nt ot interest. PoNiln exchange - at the d1apoaal or the British. Who, eventually - would pay orr with shipments or ar11aaent. IIIDCIIBSil The Indonesian Governaent announces - that the military c01111ander1 on smatra have been called tor a oontehne1■ S\allOned tor talks - in Jakarta, J•••• They claili, hoawr, that 1t 1 a •rely routine - having nothing to do with a tbNat ot re•olt by the ■111tary force, or S\lllllltra. of a .... rally - to aupport a Mallcl that tbl .Jakarta ~ ~ gownment _ , NI~~~ outing o~ CJ: It not. a nn 1111111 will be ■et up on SUlliltra • halCS.d 'r JOIIIII aa, ott1oen and leaden of the lloal• partJ. IIDIA Big doings - over in India. l huge dellonatrat1an at Ho Cb1 linh receiwed at tbilt le• Delhi airport - 1'f Ind1lll Pr1ill 11n1ater lebru and otmr ott1c1ala. !bi Nal RIID1) ,¥NpOrt • tliat Bo Cb1 ll1nb bad fallen fNII ,-r. Lut . . . . . . f att.endtlcl • bi41 oelebNtlm 1n . . . . . . After llhlob ha nn1ahed - nothlnl ■-not• Ch11111ib tor 11■1 t1111. Retum1nl to hla Colllllniat count17 - onl.J after a --.ie ot aontba. 'ftle bUia tor ti. l'UIIOr - that be had fallen • ' ot tavor at tba IJ'Milin. Jlolf ba•a on & v1a1t in India. '1'he Reda giving h1a a big WlCOM - to aquelch tba l'\IIOr. IISBIHCIIIR President 111enhower doea not want to ait there - glaring at Khruahchev • Vi th KhN■hchev - glaring baok at hi■• That•• the figure or speech uaed by the Preaident at bia • • conrerence, today - on the aubJect ot a • 11 confeNDoe betwen the heada or 1tate. 'felling the NpOrtera - that, on thl bula ot a letter trail Sonet P11■ler Bulganin, there 1m•t a •11111• Nid the PNa1dent, •you 1111114 Jut be glaring at nab o1t11• acrou Ille table.• Be Uid - ••• •rklng on a reply to tba la•• llalpnln letter - with 1t1 plea tor a ■-lt conteNnoe. Adding - tbl.t; tr.•-~? 1111 I" - ap with a . . approach - leading t;o a 110rti.h1le conference •1th ,;-one, leaden. Without - Jut glaring. , FCC At hie news conference, today, Prea1.dent Biaenhowr atated that legal experts have advised him - that it ia perfect y legal for members of regulatory agencies, like the Federal Comun1cations Conniaaion, to take tH■ tor ilaking apeechea. Which, of course, refers to Cha1run Doerter of the PCC - llho explains a payment or f1ve-ttundre«l4nd-NftntJ•tlft dollars, u a tH he received tor llllcing an addN11 bltoN lhfl lational Aaaoc1at1on of Broadcuters. In Congre11, •anllhlle, there I I a blUt t1N4 at 9)~-~~ .,ACongrelllllll IIDulCS.r of IUIIOUri, Chairaan or the lbftlt~lfll Slab-Ccllil1ttee. Baaed on the tact - that CongNIIUft llllildll' put a 1chool girl daushter on the payroll ot hi■ otr1ce 1tatr. The payroll bill - tooted by the goveftlllent. Congressman Clare Hotfllan ot Michigan point• out, that fifteen year old Marcia Moulder •as in• school back in Missouri - while drawing more than twelve thouaand dollars from Nineteen Fitty-Two through Nineteen Fifty-P1ve. Beginning llh~e waa fifteen. ,cc - 2 - To which the Congre1111111n repl1e1 - that ahe earned the 1100ey by doing work. Be aaya - opponent• or h1■ inw■tigation are trying to "-•rand d11orec11t• h1a. At the hearing today - etoray arg1111nt. PCC ott1c1ala dtillnding a ohlnce to deny oharge1. OM or t;blll - a Mpb,ft ot COngrea:n,n SIii Ra,blll'n ot fem, 8pNDr ot tilll IIIIW.. ,.nnulon granted - with ottlolal■ e z p l ~ ._, u. ltl'Oadcut lnclllatr, MNlJ paid lor tha1r expenw .._ 1111, ... t • a,nld~r1pa or attenilN 1nt1Uat17 convenuou. - ••--NOt tbe su-ca 11,w ptote■w •••' ._ NUlb 1111, ...... Doert•r -tlni ....-,1011N IIJ as.~11111111•• '.-: ~ CoalNl Sohlfarta. BISIIIIOIIIR • HllL'l'II President Biaenhower hU cancelled an enpp11e11t - tor toaorrow aoming. Vhen he ... to attend a prapr bNaktUt - given by the Intemational Council ror Chri1t1an l••l'lhlp. Reason - the presidential cold and aore throat. At hie new■ conference, today, the PN1ldent ulted the reportera - to uke their q1111tiona long. So that ha IOllld • - r thea tirietly. 111th - ",e•• or •no•. So tmy . . . * long --re. - llhile IIGIIN Secretary Jili Jllpn, aa,a - tm MIiii• lfbere be had three eta,■ ot -kend golf - in ohillJ, winct, wather.lfheNupon the doctor began treating the patier.t with throat apra,a. Word 11 that, yeatera,, · the President thought tor • - while - he'd have to go to bed. Taking it euy - to tight thl cold. Bllt then decided, laat night - that he'd attend the tonal· White Bouse dimer for fifty top ac1ent1ata and military leldare. IUIIIIGlfl'P - IIIALTH - 2 Which he d1d • telling the gue1t1 that he telt INOh better. Today, he did a t'llll lohedule of writ. ~ to the reporter, - that he tel t fine - exoept that hla wol' . . hoarN. VAIIIUARD The Navy ives official explanation of the failure at Cape Canaveral, Flor i da, last night. The Vanguard ■ia111e, with an art i ficial satell i te - breaking 1n to, and plunging into the ocean. Today•• report - baaed on the telemetry reeol'di. That 1a, the radio aignals received fl'OII the Vanguard, u 1t atartecl alot, Thaae show that tor nearly a ■inute - till n1p1 - no!ll&l. '1'he long 1lender ■isaile - soaring upiard 1n a blue ot glory. But then, SMll irrqular1t1ea •re no'-d 1n tba engine contl'Ol syst• or the r1r1t 1tage rocat. thin, AV after the aixtieth aecond, ~ failure in that control •1•• cauaed a detlection, the engine veering far to the right. Which snapped the slender Vanguard -· in two. Whereupon, an engineer on the ground presaed a button destroying the ■1aa1le, by an exploaion. There•• talk that the Vanguard may now be discarded. which 11 countered by atatementa - that another Vanguard att..pt will be made. ADD VUOUARD Secretary of Defense Jfeil NcElroy predict• - the hp•• hard-luck Vanguard will eventually launch an earth aatellite. Neanwhile, the Explorer 1■ doing tine. C1ro11ng the earth 1n an extNMe -' l1pt1cal orb! t, veering fl'GII M hundred and ninetHn ■ilea to titteen hundred and eighty-Nnn ■11e1 away tl'OIII the 1\U'tace of the earth. !Ill lxploNr - IUN 11 exploring. DART POND N011 about - another ot thoae ■1racle1 ot 101enoe. The heart-lung uchine - a 11te1aftr, in aevere c - • ot heart attack, llhen aurpi, 11 nHded. 'l'be 1npn1ou •oblln1• • dolll a p\llping Job. Which relieYea the heart ot about oae-tbili ot 1t1 ordinar, labor. 'l'lk1ng oter 110at ot ' - tiirdirl,a IO• ..n 11118 a chlnoe - to Nit and raoower. I'm heart lUIII aacbine - tbe ranlt ot NNU'lli ~4~/Fu,~y~-.,,a a,-aoNd bJ tlMt IINl't "8lcl. llb10b, tb11 IIOlltb~1• -"1111 to• ~ ~ l e 11111110rt • . _ , IINdN ~ tor tlle 1,11■.-tp - • • •ladi that ld.llN • N tban e1;bt hllndNd tboUml 121•1 : •■ GUI The u.s. Air Poree haa a gun that tire• - aeYttn thousand rounda a ■1nute. More than a hundred ahota - per aeoond. Which urvel ot rapid tire 11 the tail gun or the Cl'v~ . B-58 -- the apeed1eat ot 4 Jet bollben,~ tat Al• laM, .. _. ... ~ J; reaw.t or aOM novel idea? lot at all. It 1 a no IION than an adaptation of the . old Gatling Oun ita appearance in the C1Y11 var. The a1aple tact wu - that they couldn't t1N NftD thouaand lbota a lllnute out ot on• gun bar1 .. 1. !be trlotlon ao great - the heat would Mlt the barrel. so theJ tilUNd • q not UH a nuaber ot barrels. Vbicb took tba - right baok to the Gatling Gun. In Eighteen Sixt~· the Aller1can 1nver.tor, Richard Gatling, devised a rapid tiring weapon - with 11x barrels arranged in a circle. The barrels - rotating and tiring one atter another. Which revolutionized - the art ot gunneey. But after a while the Gatl i ng Oun became obsolete - GUI - 2 - auperaeded by the uchine gun. The older •apon ■o tar forgotten , that the expert• or 110dem research hlld to go to a 11\118\111 to tind one. Taking that old 11UHU11 piece, a n d ~ one change. '1'ha Gatling Oun - operated 111th a hind crank. So theJ could tire five thousand shot■ a ■1nute tra11 that ano1•1 relic ot Civil Var daya. They i■proftd it a b11 aore, and pt it up to - Nftn tbouund abota a al.nute. So that•• the lateat Air Poree aanel - a., 1!t Wfr~-tl:t ttw Gatling G\n. )Jt111n ot the alang te111 tor gun • • pt. ¥♦&♦14 low, a queatioa of roaaaot - how aaob la a kl•• wor\b? The •••••r oo••• fro ■ an uatapeoted place, tar oft Mala,a. lala7an ro1alt7 - inwol•••• Prlaot , , .. ta a reao\t prlacipallt, la \hat laa4 of tropleal.ji . . l• • le■a . . , aid \bt 4ulaa. Bia lo7al Bi1b•••• - tatea ooart. Chari•• - wi\h at,allaa a ti••• t•• ~ ... • • ooa4e■aig hi ■ to par- to~ tt. lo - how••••' 4aao•••• Tb• direotor of the ballet - a wo■aa, L•• ti•• Joaa. ••~ aa,• - th• broth•• ot the Sultan of ledab •••ated •P• 1••~bt4 her, aad tla114 her. The p~l••• • later 11t\la1 ia\o a aorap wl\b th• polloe. Toda,, the Juda• found hia auilt7, and lapo••• a tine - the price of th• ti••• Bow aucb? Thirt7 ceata, • S•••• cheap 1noqh - Don - thirty ceata - la lala,a, bo■• of the haaadr7ad, the 1ladan1, th• sakiar, the Se ■ag, the durlaaL and aftectonate Prince Ten1tu Sbuib lbni Alaabooa or ledah. ___....,,-,.._ ~ . ''"''' At the lla■l p la,groua4, tbla aft••••••• abed their f•r ooat1 - aad pat oa bathiq •••• Tbla ■oralaa - pal■ tr••• ••r• 1lea■l•1 - wit~ whit• troat. Teaper.atar•• • aa lo••• •l1bt••• 4 . . r••• to th• aoutb of lla■l, laat al1bt. &a 107 •lad• ,.1.,1 te■peratu•• oai, tov ••1r••• a•••• tlae all-ti••••• . . tor 0014 la llorlda. Tbea, 1ac1.4eai,, Jaot lro1t •a• 1•••• - •1owlg. Tia• tber■o■et.er • ollillllDI •P to •••••r thl ■ atteraooa. •••••••• the i-■&1• ••• •••• laat alcM. - . . . .,. to llerl4a ••1•table taru. Bit ban - . , aa earli• oold •••P• lad••• - th• r.1■alader of tile orop• YlrtuallJ r•i••• laat a11•t. Aad 8010111 Datil To■orrow!