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...India wanted to stay in the Commonwealth fold. She could ill afford to lose British economic, military and technical help. The British in India today, now that they no longer rule, are more popular than ever before. Living alone in the world does not look inviting, with the Communist colossus on India's northern border. Nearer to home, India is confronted with the terrible warning of Burma which fell into chaos and civil war after rashly severing all Commonwealth ties...
...over the role of martyred Count Folke Bernadotte. Several times during the seven weeks of negotiations, agreement had seemed hopeless. Each time Dr. Bunche had thought of something to keep the talks alive. By last week, the negotiators on both sides had come to regard him as a new colossus of Rhodes...
Despite popular misconceptions of the "Colossus on the Hudson," undergraduate enrollment totals only 2,000--up from a pre-war norm of 1,750. But because of the confusion between small Columbia College and huge Columbia University, and because of the college's pre-eminent position in the world's largest city, people have come to expect big things of the institution which once turned out such graduates as Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, Robert Livingston, and Gouverneur Morris...
...Long Shadow. The 30-line statement barely hinted at what a colossus IAPI has become. Founded in 1946 to promote foreign trade, IAPI now handles every principal Argentine export except wool. It makes all purchases abroad for the billion-dollar five-year plan; it is the importing agency for private industries. Through its system of subsidies, it regulates domestic food prices...
Sportwriters knocked themselves out thinking up new names and superlatives for him: The Sultan of Swat, the Bambino, The Colossus of Clout. He didn't need all that; he was color itself-a fellow built on heroic, swaggering lines, an enormous head on a barrel of a body...