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Closed Routes. The instrument used was the mujahid, or local warrior. Subsequent Indian interrogations of captured mujahids indicate that they are mostly inhabitants of Azad (Free) Kashmir, the Pakistan-occupied one-third of the state. As army veterans, they were given a brisk course of retraining, taught methods of sabotage. Last month they began crossing the porous cease-fire line with instructions to start an insurrection...
They acted stupidly. Why did neither one of them think of using the gasoline or the cigarette lighter from the car to get a fire going? Yet millions of people nowadays, claims Author Cord Christian Troebst (Conquest of the Sea) would have behaved just as ineffectually. In this brisk compendium, Author Troebst recounts a number of harrowing adventure stories and gives some ingenious advice on the art of survival...
...enticing extras. That philosophy comes fittingly to Margaret Clapp, who was a writer of poetry, a teacher of English, a Ph.D. and a respected historian before moving to the 500-acre, 90-year-old Massachusetts school 16 years ago (TIME cover, Oct. 10, 1949). In addition to setting a brisk, workmanlike tone for her students, "Miss Clapp" (never "Dr.") enhanced the character of the school itself with an admirable admin istrative skill. Keeping student enrollment to a steady 1,700, she doubled the college's endowment from $30 million to $62 million, increased faculty salaries from a 1950 average...
...this field." The mayor was inaugurating the first scheduled passenger service in the U.S. of a Hovercraft, the British-designed flying machine that rides above the ground on a cushion of compressed air, can skim both land and sea (provided there are no major hills or waves) at a brisk 85 m.p.h. This one had just floated over San Francisco Bay, scooted up a ramp without breaking stride, and roared on across the Oakland airstrip to its destination. The scheduled shuttle between the Oakland and San Francisco airports should prove the perfect opportunity for the Hovercraft to show its stuff...
Competition from Communists. Demand is so brisk that garment makers have trouble getting enough silk for their needs. Because many Thai farmers prefer raising livestock to tending mulberry bushes, and some Buddhists have qualms about killing silkworms, production has held at about 500,000 Ibs. a year (v. 300,000 lbs. in 1939). Manufacturers are trying to persuade farmers to boost output, and have inadvertently sold some other people on the profitable prospects of Thai silk. In the sincerest form of flattery, Communist China has introduced an imitation Thai silk for sale in Hong Kong...