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Amid the din of election, some 1,600 American communities spread across the 48 states did not forget another autumn campaign: the annual Red Feather drive for charity. Two million volunteers, under the national leadership of Community
Ordinarily, no climbers would be eager to tackle Everest in the shortening, ever colder days of autumn. But the Swiss have no choice: Nepal's government will honor their entry permit only until year's end. Moreover Nepal, under pressure from the spy-conscious Chinese Reds, has announced that it will give passage to only one more group of climbers, a British party now planning an assault on Everest late next spring, the traditional season for climbing...
...Royal St. George's Golf Club in Sandwich, England, the Duke of Windsor entered the autumn tournament with a handicap of 16. Wearing a waterproof hat that looked like a combination sou'wester and deerstalker, the Duke shot a 98. Next day, on the eleventh hole, he tore up his card, told club officials: "My game's so bad it's no good going on. It's all right to be playing like this in France . . . ordinary hurdles. But this course is the Grand National of golf courses...
...change in the college deferment program to reduce the number in college whose military service has been deferred is indicated for the autumn...
...table with a "grave warning." The Communist armies, he cried, "decidedly cannot sit by while seeing their capTured fellow combatants being slaughtered by your side at will" (see below). This sounded uncomfortably like the warnings that emanated from Red China on the eve of her massive intervention in the autumn...