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Early Birds. In Calcutta. India, an advertisement in the Statesman reminded this year's candidates for the Air Force Flying College that they "must have been born not earlier than 2nd August. 1960." added. "These age limits can in no case be relaxed...
...Calcutta United Presbyterian Church...
...Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko did not insist that the final communiqué include the usual plea for Red China's admission to the U.N., the Indonesians having called the suggestion "inopportune"* ; Peking has been giving them a bad time over their law curbing overseas Chinese traders. And in Calcutta, where Khrushchev stopped over to meet Nehru and Burma's Prime Minister-designate U Nu, the air was festive because China's Chou En-lai had meanwhile agreed to visit New Delhi to discuss the Chinese-Indian border dispute. "The Indian people will overcome difficulties," shouted Khrushchev...
...Peace & Might. By playing up so lavishly to the Asian leaders - at a remove from the unspontaneous crowds -Khrushchev cut the ground from under local Communists. The day Khrushchev spoke in Calcutta, the chief minister of West Bengal faced down the Communist opposition leader's parliamentary criticism by citing Khrushchev's praise of Indian development. In Burma, where Communists' parliamentary strength was sliced from 45 to three in last month's elections, Khrushchev passed over local Reds to praise U Nu as "a great peace fighter." And in Indonesia, the Communist boss of the country...
Tieless in Calcutta's sun one day and trench-coated in Kabul's icy drizzle the next, the Soviet chieftain wound up his tour on a characteristic note, proclaiming himself the apostle of peace and his country "the world's strongest military power." He had mended some fences, dispensed a good deal of largesse. Peking's continued silence about his journey suggested, moreover, that the Chinese Communists had decided this was the most face-saving manner to adopt while conforming to Khrushchev's major line of peaceful coexistence...