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...quietly effective defense of Navy abilities, the new CNO quickly restored order and confidence. The newest member of the J.C.S. (replacing Admiral Denfeld, who was sacked in the unification row), he quickly proved himself its ablest member, a well-trained professional fighting man who also had a grip of world politics unmatched by any of his associates...
Prime Minister Nehru has lost his grip on the Indian Congress Party, the power, now crumbling, that led the fight for Indian independence. With common enemy and common purpose gone, the party has turned flabby and corrupt. Its new strong man is Purushottamdas Tandon, a bearded lawyer who looks like a Hindu holy man and acts like a Tammany boss. A right-winger, he controls the party machine and the political bosses whom Nehru has nei, ther time nor inclination to pay much attention to. Last month a group of Nehru's left-wing followers seceded from the Congress...
...Wednesday, Stoughton staved off a late-game rally by Mallinckrodt to win their third straight game, 11-9, and strengthen its grip on first place in the league. Also on Wednesday, Thayer came from behind with three runs in the last inning to hand Holworthy its second one-run defeat...
...Zealand (pop. 1,850,000) lives by her seaborne trade. But for 16 years New Zealand's ports had been in the grip of the Communist-led Wraterside Workers' Union. * When the Cominform signaled a stepped-up cold war against the democracies four years ago, the union's headlock on New Zealand trade quickly slipped into a stranglehold...
...important for the West to watch these signs in Communist China; it is equally important for the West not to overestimate them. For decades similar evidence has come out of Soviet Russia; yet through mass killings, violent social upheaval and economic crises the Soviet regime has kept its death grip on the country. China's Red masters may be in for plenty of trouble (and if the U.S. chooses, it can increase that trouble). But it is a fact that the Communists in China have under their control today one-fifth of the human race; they have succeeded...