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Another emergent problem may involve Pakistan and the Kashmir dispute. By indicating that a refusal to negotiate is an excuse for military action, Nehru has handed the Pakistanis a perfect argument to resolve the Kashmir problem; like Portugal's Salazar, Nehru has refused to confer on Pakistan's right to the mountainous northern Indian province. But most importantly, Nehru and India will find it now impossible to preach nonviolence and compromise at any cost to the rest of the world...
Solidarity and Safety. After spending the night in Los Núñez, the Venezuelan version of the White House, the Kennedys planned to jet off for Bogotá, where the President would confer with Colombia's President Alberto Lleras Camargo, another good South American friend of the U.S. As it was originally conceived. President Kennedy's trip to Latin America had been seen as a ritualistic way for the U.S. to demonstrate the importance it places on hemispheric solidarity. Then, after the commitments were made, came the deep worries about the physical safety of John and Jacqueline...
Whatever else can be said about England's Oxford University, it does confer on its men an icy calm in the face of undue provocation. Items: >Oxford's Track Star Adrian Metcalfe. 19, was dumfounded at a suggestion that he join Arizona State College's track team. "I have written," said 1961's fastest 400-meter runner (45.7 sec.), "that I am at a university which was founded when their ancestors were in the trees. I have no idea what they might suggest I should study. It's probably handwriting." >Oxford's student magazine...
...partner in the Wall Street brokerage house of Cady, Roberts & Co., and his role in a well-timed sell-off of Curtiss-Wright Corp. shares on Nov. 25, 1959. Two days earlier, Roy Hurley, then chairman and president of Curtiss-Wright, had held a much ballyhooed press confer- ence in which he displayed a revolutionary rotary combustion engine that he said C-W was going to produce. On the strength of this promised new product, C-W shares jumped 8¼ points in the next two days, to reach the year's high...
...confer with the Administration and Faculty of the Colleges, or any member thereof, upon any subject pertaining to the undergraduate body...