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...stone. The chute opened fully when he was only a few feet above the ground, so late that his feet were above his head when he hit. In a split second, the plane roared through the trees above him. slammed into the ground 50 yards away (killing an eight-point, 150-lb. buck), and began to burn. Sergeant Arrington stood up, bruised but alive, ran into the fire and pulled out a dying crewman...
...Winston Churchill said flatly that no "difference of principle" remains to be settled in the truce talks at Panmunjom, and implied that the U.S. is haggling over technicalities. India's Nehru publicly announced that the Communist eight-point proposal (TIME, May 18) is better than the U.N. Command's. A good part of the European and Asiatic world seemed to share these views...
What they tendered was a new, eight-point plan, the crucial feature of which is a provision that the prisoners who refuse to return to Communist hands should stay in Korea, under the supervision of a five-nation "repatriation commission," until their "apprehensions" are "eliminated." Originally, the Communists had insisted that the 48,000 balky prisoners be transported to a neutral nation, which the U.N. rejected as completely impractical. The five "neutral" nations proposed by the Reds: Poland. Czechoslovakia, Sweden, Switzerland, India...
...basis of comparative scores, Yale ranks as a slight favorite. While the Crimson lost, 7 to 6, to Dartmouth, the Elis edged the Indians. The only other common opponent was Princeton: the Crimson was defeated by the Tigers, 9 to 0, and Yale lost by an eight-point margin...
...editorial was in answer to the eight-point program adopted by the eight schools comprising the Ivy League...