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...nations "large & small" are assured of "equality"-but Big Power dominance (specifically, the veto) is built into the U.N.'s constitution. No nation gives up sovereignty to the U.N.; none would and none was asked. In deference to British wishes, the U.N. is specifically forbidden to intervene in matters which are "essentially within the domestic jurisdiction of any state." Mexico complained at the time that the charter created "an order in the forest which will keep the mice in order, but not the lions." This was true, yet it was a simple fact of life that...
Suddenly the awful yellow of the caution lights flared around the track. Drivers slowed down, forbidden to pass each other until the danger was past. Black fumes, more ominous than any thunderhead, eased upward over the backstretch. The racket of racing engines sounded loud against the tense and quiet crowd. Reason for the yellow lights: a four-car pile-up that had jammed the track ahead of Wild Bill Vukovich. All the luck in the world was not enough to bypass disaster. Vuky never had a chance. His Hopkins Special plowed into the tangled wreckage at 150 m.p.h., bounced into...
...Korea, where peace is precarious and the Communists openly defy the truce by moving in forbidden troops and supplies, the U.S. likes to keep an aerial watch on the enemy. The Chinese Communists do not like to have intruders flying over the northern half of the Yellow Sea, in the vicinity of Port Arthur and Dairen or the big MIG base at Antung, but the U.S. insists on its right to fly over international waters...
...Untouchability' is abolished and its practice in any form is forbidden," the Indian constitution promised in November 1949. But through much of Nehru's emergent country, the 50-million Hindu untouchables continued to live their menial lives, scorned and ignored by caste-conscious Hindus. Last week Nehru introduced, and the lower House of the People quickly passed, India's first bill to make discrimination against untouchables an offense-punishable with a six-month jail term and a fine of 500 rupees ($105). Henceforth, untouchables will have the law on their side in demanding undisturbed access to shops...
Even those who race legally, however, will have much less incentive to win this year. Wellesley has attacked the past commercialism of the race, and has forbidden the Bicycle Exchange to donate a free bike to the winner. The traditional winner's kiss has likewise been done away with...