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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...CENTO's three Middle Eastern members in fiscal 1959. "Clearly, the U.S. cannot underwrite all CENTO economic projects," said Secretary of State Christian Herter. Imperfect as CENTO may be, however, the U.S. could not abandon it without shaking the free world's strategic position in the Middle East, and Herter also made it plain that he was aware of that. Said he: "CENTO will continue to enjoy strong U.S. support...
...behalf, Nehru had already sent off an indignant letter to Peking accusing the Communists of stationing their troops inside India from Shipki Pass on the Tibetan border to the North-East Frontier Agency (see map). Last week he got back a blandly conciliatory note from Red Chinese Premier Chou En-lai saying that the two countries' differences were nothing more than "an episode in our age-old friendship." But this time Nehru refused to be mollified. Most courteous, said he of the note, but any further Chinese aggression against India "will certainly be fully resisted." Added the Hindustan Times...
...Syracuse (3-0)-proved the early-season class of the East by sinking Navy...
...take a panoramic view of the news, more inclined to pundit. This comes out most in his own Sunday show, Time: Present -Chet Huntley Reporting, in which he explores predominantly heavy subjects: integration, world trade, public education. A graduate of Western broadcasting (Seattle, Los Angeles), he was brought East by NBC in 1956 to do the Sunday show, is one of TV's best-paid newsmen (total annual income...
...fast spread of credit cards is based on one main assumption: most people are honest. Last week Joseph Robert Miraglia, 19, a $73-a-week office clerk from Manhattan's Lower East Side, showed what can happen when the assumption happens to be dead wrong. With a credit card and rubber checks cashed on the basis of credit-card identification, Miraglia told police he ran up $10,000 in hotel and travel bills and general high living in the U.S., Canada and Cuba in less than a month. Said Miraglia: "I always wanted to see the world...