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This strange and splendid treasure has been touring the U.S., was on exhibition at Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum last week. In August it will return to Turkey. The find opens a new chapter in the history of art, providing a missing link between the culture of the Euphrates basin and that of archaic Greece. Similarities in style show that Greek traders and marauders must have brought home in their hollow ships a mass of Phrygian treasure-which in turn helped shape Greek...
Himalayan Snows. The problem of the Indus basin is that its six rivers (the Indus, Jhelum, Chenab, Ravi, Sutlej, Beas) have their upper waters in India, yet flow through Pakistan to empty into the Arabian Sea. For 5,000 years-until partition-the river and canal network was developed as a single unit, creating a valley civilization that stretched back three millenniums before Christ. When the British took over in the 18th century, they added hydraulic engineering to the big and small canals leading off from the fingers of the river system. Some of the canals carry as much water...
...suspicious of the other's use of American aid, claiming that when the U.S. strengthens one nation it endangers the other. On April tenth, Pakistani-owned Sabre jets downed an Indian reconaissance plane, an incident which did much to arouse Indian ill-will. Disputes over division of the Indus Basin and control of Kashmir have yet to be settled and there still exists distrust among Indian politicians of the military dictatorship of Ayub Khan's government, its absence of parties, elections, and an independent judiciary...
Races will be run on the Charles River Basin course, finishing below the M.I.T. boathouse over a mile and five-sixteenths distance...
...races will be rowed in conjunction with the lightweight regatta at half hour intervals on the mile and three quarters course over the Charles River Basin, finishing just below the M.I.T. boathouse. Times of the heavyweight races are: third freshmen, 9 a.m.; third varsity, 2:45 p.m.; first freshmen, 5 p.m. J.V., 5:30; varsity...