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...Duxford R.A.F. field near Cambridge, the R.A.F. brass gathered to show off Britain's jet air power. Noting cloud formations (at 1,200 ft.) in the sky, Tito suggested that the demonstration be canceled, but his hosts insisted. Minutes later two Meteor Mark 8s collided during an acrobatic show and crashed, killing both pilots, while Tito looked on in horror. (On his way to England, four other Britons had been killed during a 60-plane "flyover" staged at Gibraltar.) Tito, visibly upset, asked the British to cancel the rest of the show. They refused. But before it was over...
...expected speakers, Madame Ranjit S. Pandit, Indian delegate to the UN, and Ahmed Khah Bokhart, Pakistan delegate and Security Council President were forced to cancel their appearances because of a UN session in New York...
...both the White House and State knew that repudiation, for the U.S., was not now feasible. Even in today's jungle of diplomacy, the U.S. cannot offhandedly cancel its formal agreements. In the case of Nationalist China-which this week abrogated its treaty with Moscow (see INTERNATIONAL)-Russia was openly aiding and abetting a rival Chinese government, i.e., the Chinese Communists in Peking. But the U.S. is still committed to a kind of tense diplomatic equilibrium with Russia. Moreover, the Yalta and Potsdam agreements were so sweeping in import that repudiation might immediately put the U.S. face to face...
Unseasonably warm rains washed out the '56 hockey game against the Blue, while no snow forced the Yardling skiers to cancel their meet with Putney School...
...Helsinki, Millionaire Shipowner Antti Wihuri, frightened by the sudden glare of publicity, tried to decide whether he should risk his ship and the wrath of the West by ordering the Wiima on, or break his contract with the Communists by ordering her to cancel delivery. At week's end, distraught Owner Wihuri fled to the privacy of a hospital bed, insisting as he went that the cargo which the Wiima took aboard in Red Rumania really wasn't aviation oil, but domestic oil for the lamps of China. "That's what it says in my contract...