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...smouldering hatred. East Pakistan pays most of Pakistan's taxes, provides most of the sterling and dollar earnings, but gets the short end of revenues. Though 56% of Pakistan's population live in East Pakistan and four out of seven Pakistanis speak the Bengali tongue, until last fortnight the nation's official language was West Pakistan's Urdu...
...C.U.T.. Chile's biggest labor federation, staged the strike as a protest against the arrest of its president, Clotario Blest, who had made a rabble-rousing speech denouncing President Carlos Ibanez and his Cabinet as "traitors to the fatherland." Blest was released on bail a fortnight ago, but the strike was called anyway. It was an ugly symptom of the nation's sickness...
...Angeles, Shotputter Parry O'Brien, who cracked the 60-ft. barrier fortnight ago, broke his own record (by ½ in.) with another record heave of 60 ft. 5 3/4 in. He is now aiming at 62 ft. Another world record was set at the Coliseum relays when the Fordham University quartet of Terry Foley, Frank Tarsney, Bill Persichetty and Tom Courtney ran the two-mile relay in 7:27.3. Old (1952) record...
Twelve pounds lighter than he was last March, Evangelist Graham is off next month on a fortnight's tour of other European countries, with meetings (through interpreters) scheduled in Helsinki, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Diissel-dorf, Berlin and Paris. Churches in Glasgow, Birmingham and London have invited him to come back to Britain next year for another campaign, and he probably will...
...Fresno, Calif., Shotputter Parry O'Brien who set a world record (60 ft. 5¼: in.) a fortnight ago in his specialty, switched to the discus at the West Coast Relays and beat World Record Holder Fortune Gordien with a toss of 184 ft. 1½ in. Only two men have tossed the discus farther: Gordien and Olympic Record Holder Sim Iness. ¶At Indianapolis, qualifying for the Memorial Day 500-miler, Jack McGrath set a new record for the four-lap (ten miles) sprint of 141.033 m.p.h. Old (1952) record: 139.034 m.p.h., set by the late Chet Miller...