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...poker-faced object of these salutations, China's Premier Chou Enlai, 65, arrived by chartered KLM plane for an eight-day visit to Pakistan, a nation of 100 million people that was once solidly pro-Western and is still a member of both CENTO and SEATO, which were set up for the purpose of containing Communism. Yet since 1962, Pakistan and Red China have 1) settled their border problems, 2) signed a trade agreement, and 3) made an air treaty under which Pakistan International Airlines will begin flights to Canton and Shanghai this summer, with reciprocal rights for Chinese...
...88th Congress, after an eight-day adjournment, returned for its second session - only to be confronted by most of the major legislative items over which it had dawdled during its first session...
...Bunnies tell it, they would still be the league leaders if they hadn't had the misfortune of having four games scheduled during one eight-day stretch. The only way they can take the title now is through the back door, since they have already played the three door, since they have already played the three teams currently leading them in the standings...
When Esperanza Rojas was 15, she fell in love with 19-year-old Agustin Infante. After an eight-day courtship, they set up housekeeping in a Caracas slum. They gave no thought to matrimony, but then neither had Esperanza's mother nor her older brothers and sisters. The love affair was stormy, filled with arguments and fights, and twice Esperanza went home to mother, each time swollen with child. Now, four years later, Esperanza and her two children live with her mother in a wood-and-cardboard shack, and she accepts her deserted, unwed state as quite natural...
...read. After months of wrangling with New York City publishers, members of the typographical union walked out. Only a month before, the New York dailies settled with the American Newspaper Guild, signing a contract that raised wages an average of $8 a week over two years, after an eight-day strike at the Daily News, largest U.S. daily. But that settlement was not enough for the typographers, and the city's daily combined run of 5,700,000 papers put out by 20,000 employees was stopped dead...