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Tormented Faces. Richard Nixon gave Mrs. Gandhi a gracious welcome on the South Lawn of the White House. It was a glorious autumn day in Washington, with the flags snapping in the wind and monuments gleaming in the sunshine. Thirteen silver trumpets sounded a fanfare from the White House portico. Then Mrs. Gandhi, regal in a brown sari and cashmere cape, reviewed the troops with the President...
With a flourish, Nixon declared: "Today we stand in Washington on Nov. 5, a winter day. In our country, we call this kind of a day Indian summer." As it happened, it was Nov. 4-autumn, not winter-and Indian summer derives from American Indians, not Indira's countrymen. But, the President said, the weather was "a good omen for our countries"-and indeed it seemed so. Concluding with a passing allusion to the treaty signed recently by the Soviet Union and India, Nixon said that India and the U.S. are bound by a "profound morality that does...
...336th annual fall sports quiz, the Crimson sports cube takes you on a nostalgic journey through the gates, portals, sections, rows and seats of college football memorabilia. After having dealt with the early gridiron heroes and glamor boys in former quizzes, this autumn the sports cube staff focuses on the '50's and '60's, when fans witnessed the rise and fall and then rebirth of a strategy called platoon football...
...first cold gusts of autumn sweep the land, wage earners are settling down to the realization that a long siege of freezelike controls on pay increases lies ahead. But come the winter of their discontent, Americans can warm themselves with the thought that by keeping a weather eye out for surreptitious or unintentional price increases, they can use their private protests to make Phase II really work...
...including 70 of the 105 Soviet officials named as spies by the British government and ordered to leave the country (15 were out of Britain when the expulsion orders came, and 20 have since left by other means). It was hardly a classy exit. For two hours in the autumn fog, glum parents and children clutching Teddy bears waited on the Thames pier while the creaking, 35-year-old Russian cruise ship Baltika, scheduled for scrapping next year, was readied for departure. Nerves were ragged. As press cameras clicked away, one Russian shouted: "Stop those stupid things...