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Nehru's attitude toward the recent events in Tibet is flagrant contempt for democracy [TIME, April 20]. You simply do not possess a true love for democracy and brush aside the mass propulsion of Tibetan people into slavery by casually and apathetically remarking, "We do not wish to aggravate the situation." There is no need for Communism to force itself into Asia, for with the sympathetic indifference of men such as Nehru, Asia will be Communist without a shot being fired...
...Powell's reforms had little charm for Jerry Myles, 44, six-time loser (burglary), sometime poem scribbler, and the prison yard's most flagrant homosexual. Nor did they change the attitude of Myles's closest friend, willowy, 19-year-old Lee Smart, who at 16 got 30 years for clubbing a man to death. Last week the pair conspired to set off one of the most harrowing riots in the recent years of trouble in the nation's prisons...
...Vatican decree did not specifically mention excommunication, though it referred to the 1949 decree. Except in the most flagrant cases, offenders will be guilty only of grave sin against the church. But the decree is binding on Catholics everywhere, and it produced a strong reaction in Italy. Right-wingers were delighted ("A helpful clarification." purred one news agency), and left-wingers, who had welcomed the election of Cardinal Roncalli as a "liberal" Pope, were dismayed. Commented Rome's fellow-traveling newspaper Paese Sera: "We thought Pope John was a Pope of new coinage, but now he has raised...
...fighting Dictator Fulgencio Batista in Cuba's eastern mountains, he advertised his revolution's aims as a purge of governmental and social corruption and a restoration of justice and democracy. He has carried out the purge, effectively cutting off official corruption and cutting down on the once flagrant prostitution. He has curbed Cuba's feverish gambling by turning the government lottery into a savings institute and confining Havana's gaudy (but currently mostly empty) casinos to the relatively few tourists who brave the new regime's occasional, brusque clothing searches at Havana airport...
...Mike Todd's Hot Mikado with Katisha as an opulent, raucous blues singer, and of a Los Angeles Yum-Yum yodeling "stark naked in her bath." Soon Crusader Alderley began to get reports from the U.S. (where G. & S. operas are not protected by copyright) detailing even more flagrant abominations: a "gutbucket" Mikado with a "hula-hooping" chorus, a "disgusting performance" of Patience with "Bunthorne played as a pansy...