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...Sikhs had attempted to carry the day with their swords, for the persuasive power of passive resistance is some thing that old jailbirds like Jawaharlal Nehru know only too well, though Nehru calls Tara Singh's campaign "silly and infantile." Last week Tara Singh marked his 71st birthday, and he spent it in jail. As a special birthday present to him, 271 Sikhs volunteered to get themselves arrested - and succeeded...
...flown to Moscow. There he was cremated and the urn containing his ashes was exhibited in the Hall of Columns. Later, with great pomp and panoply, it was carried to Red Square and placed in a niche in the Kremlin wall. He had died wanting 18 days to his 71st birthday, but no one, neither his U.N. colleagues nor his fellow careerists in Moscow, in eulogizing him, suggested that he had died too soon...
...election day this week, Paraguay's President Federico Chaves puffed his black cigars and puttered about his two-story house on a jacaranda-shaded street in Asunción. Don Federico could celebrate his 71st birthday and his second presidential victory with calm assurance, for it was a one-man election, Paraguay's fourth since 1948.* Through the day, most of the 200,000 registered voters dutifully visited the polls (under threat of fine) to cast their ballots for him as the candidate of the Colorados, the country's only legal political party...
...notably the Garment Workers' Dave Dubinsky, the Railway Clerks' George Harrison and A.F.L. Secretary Treasurer George Meany) have been determined to maneuver the federation into openly avowed support of the Democratic presidential candidate. Dubinsky & Co., maneuvered well. Last week, when 800 delegates to the federation's 71st annual convention arrived in New York, the stage was all set for the A.F.L. to proclaim its loyalty to Adlai Stevenson...
...B.S.O., now in its 71st year, will present a program including Variation on a Theme by Haydn, by Brahms. Symphony in A major, No. 4, "Italian," by Mendelssohn, and selections by Faure and Debussy...