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...infantry weapons. In last week's decision, the President went much further. He approved outlays from his own presidential contingency fund and other military aid sources to raise the little nation's armed strength to 29.000, ordered Navy Admiral Harry D. Felt, U.S. commander in the Far East, to airlift arms and equipment to the scene of trouble. With those two orders, and with the publicizing of them at his press conference, President Eisenhower threw still another major force into the struggle: he laid U.S. prestige on the jungle line in Laos almost as surely as he once...
...Quite Clear." Only days before, said Nehru, 38 Indian soldiers had fought with 300 Chinese invaders and barely escaped encirclement. An Indian plane had tried to drop munitions to the surrounded men but failed. That incident had occurred at Longju in India's North-East Frontier Agency (popularly called NEFA). It was not the first one. A thousand miles to the west, in the Ladakh district of Kashmir, Chinese Communists have repeatedly ambushed and captured isolated Indian patrols, said Nehru. As recently as July an Indian detachment (an officer and five men) was taken prisoner by Chinese troops that...
...Mail (circ. 2,071,054), Adenauer was reminiscent of Adolf Hitler, "who ranted and raved to show what a great man he was." To Lord Beaverbrook's Express, Adenauer was "willing to prolong the quarrel between Russia and the U.S. for the purpose -the sole purpose-of recovering East Germany and the lands still further east which were handed over to Poland when Germany was defeated...
Sculptor Jacob Epstein, who died last week, was born 78 years ago into the brawling, colorful, self-contained world of Manhattan's Lower East Side. His Polish immigrant parents prospered and moved uptown, but young Epstein, by choice, swam with the rats in the East River, peered wistfully under the swinging doors of Bowery saloons, grew up belligerent and ravenous for experience. He wanted a life with size and shape, and that was what he forged for himself...
...East Hampton, L.I., John Drew Theater: Leueen MacGrath and Tom Helmore in Gilt and Gingerbread...