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...Kanpur, Nehru explained the British and American U.N. vote to condemn India's seizure of Kashmir (TIME, Feb. 4) as simply a reward to Pakistan for its membership in SEATO and the Baghdad Pact. The intent, said Nehru, was "to make India change her independent policy." Then, amidst wild cheers, he cried defiantly: "India will not change her stand on Kashmir one iota under any threat...
...will become prime minister for a third time amidst simmerings of a new armed revolt against British rule in Northern Ireland...
Supply & Demand. Amidst the furor, up stepped Hines Baker, president of Humble Oil Refining Co., biggest U.S. domestic producer (300,000 bbl. daily), to make his case for the industry. Humble had supplied almost 50% of all the oil shipped to Europe in November and December-and it was also Humble that had set the pattern for the recent industrywide price rise by boosting the price it pays well-operators for crude oil. Said President Baker: "Once the Suez was closed, Europe was bound to have a shortage. In a situation like this, no one man, no one company...
...Alonso does this off stage, leaving his readers panting to know just how this Don Juan is so clever with the ladies. The early scenes are loaded with lines which introduce the facts about Don Juan abruptly and in a back-handed way. His supernatural mother slips in, amidst great comforting of his unhappiness, "No man can harm you because you're the son of an angel, but you could end your sorrow yourself." There is no indication of time lapse between scenes, which is confusing. And Gloria exists twice in the last couple of pages without ever re-entering...
...getting to be the time of year for recriminations. Masses of undergraduates solemnly march to and from the masses of books from which they are imbibing in the face of clever academic ostentations so soon to be required. Amidst the muffled footsteps and unshaven faces of Lamont a reading period realization regularly grows that the currently popular method of passing courses by cramming is one of the most lamentably inadequate educational devices yet blessed with institutional recognition...