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...Emotional Indian women mailed the commander 100-rupee notes ($21) as contributions toward his defense, and the bills bore the lipstick imprint of their kisses, as well as their names and addresses. Toy counters were crowded with "Nanavati" cap pistols so that Indian small fry could re-enact the killing. Bombay teen-agers put new words to the tune of Hang Down Your Head, Tom Dooley...
...right to withhold any case from the jurisdiction of the World Court in Geneva by calling it a "domestic issue.'' Since domestic disputes are actually exempt from World Court action anyhow, the lawyers knew that the Connally Reservation would serve only to encourage other nations to enact the same kind of proviso, create a situation where disputants could keep any meaningful international cases away from the court simply by labeling them "domestic.'' Events proved them correct, and the structure of international law was seriously weakened...
...famous Neapolitan presepios that delighted King Charles III of Naples and his queen, who sewed garments of silk and velvet for such exquisitely wrought figurines. Using the simplest of materials-vegetable fibers on wire skeletons, wooden hands and feet, earthenware heads-noted Italian sculptors created these figures, which now enact the Christmas story in the apartment of a Neapolitan collector, where they were photographed by TIME'S David Lees. As the crèche appears on TIME'S first gatefold cover picture, it symbolizes not only the spirit of the season, along with Christmas cards and Santa...
India has for long remained a convenient "friend" for China to enact her episodes upon; and still, ironically enough, it is India's tragic pair, Nehru and Menon, who would readily shield China's attitude that yellow imperialism must replace white imperialism in Asia...
...Miracle Worker. Anne Bancroft and ten-year-old Patty Duke superbly enact famed Teacher Annie Sullivan's turbulent, triumphant struggle with the child Helen Keller. The play is sometimes clumsy, but the show as a whole is unforgettable theater...