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India's Jawaharlal Nehru is like a man who is simultaneously being trampled by an elephant and needled by a mosquito-and goes for the mosquito. While doing his best to ignore Communist China's latest incursions in a vast (50,000 sq. mi.), disputed area oi northeastern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India: Intolerable Goa | 12/22/1961 | See Source »

Dragons (to hang in your room) and elephant hair bracelets are the thing in Kitty Haas' novelty shop. Assorted gadgets from India, Siam, Korea, Persia, Greece, and Egypt line the walls of the store, with Bali Keks (goat god dolls to the unaware) in a featured spot. Dresses are selling...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Square Greets Another Christmas With Bali-Keks, Poinsettias, Twist | 12/6/1961 | See Source »

This doesn't happen much with Eliot, however. Eight players from last year's championship team are back, including quarterback Roger Skemp and center Hugh Ault. Running out of a split T. Eliot uses Andy Shea and Mark Woodbury at halfback, and Keith Striggow at fullback. Woodbury's left-handed...

Author: By Frederic L. Ballard jr., | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 10/6/1961 | See Source »

The Crimson outclassed a slow and obviously inferior Tufts contingent, easily controlling the ball and shooting almost at will. Harvard goalie John Adams did not get his hands on the ball once in the first half as fullbacks Louie Williams and Charlie David easily blocked the rare Elephant shots.

Author: By Stephen C. Rogers, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: O'Hiri Gets Five Goals In Crimson's First Win | 10/5/1961 | See Source »

At college (Yale and Oxford), Miller studied Latin and Greek and aspired to architecture. But in 1934 he was called home to Columbus to take charge of the least promising of the wealthy Miller family's far-flung enterprises: a consistently unprofitable plant that had been built to produce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporations: Fair & Over-Square | 9/29/1961 | See Source »

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