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Despite Indian assertions that the Goan people were delighted with their "liberation," Indian troops elsewhere in Goa were received with similar muted enthusiasm. No welcoming arches or banners were strung over the streets, and the few Jai Hind (Hail India) slogans painted on official buildings had mostly been slapped on by the Indians themselves, not by an exuberant citizenry. Fraternization between the Indians and the Goans was almost nonexistent. Armed Indian infantrymen, their weapons slung over their shoulders, went sightseeing on near-deserted streets...
...Katanga Deputies to the Congolese national Parliament by Dec. 27 to start the reunification of Katanga with the rest of the country; if Tshombe did not live up to his pledge, the U.N.'s 6,000 Indian, Ethiopian, Swedish and Irish soldiers around Elisabethville might well resume their hail of shells, rockets and machine-gun fire. When one of Tshombe's platoons last week clashed with a group of Ethiopian soldiers who occupied the big Union Minière copper refinery at nearby Lubumbashi, the Ethiopians fought so bitterly that the ground was littered with Katangese dead...
Before the game at the Bowl, a Harvard Band member announced on the public address system. "We have definite word that the President will attend the game today." The Band played its regular Yale Medley for the home side and then played "Hail To The Chief" before the Harvard fans. Exclaimed the Yale Band leader, "He's coming...
Lonely, embittered by disregard, Gorer decides to revenge himself on the world in one fell swipe. He sets out to forge a Holbein. The forgery is successful, critics hail the new discovery, and the picture is sold for 40,000 guineas. Then Gorer triumphantly reveals that he forged the painting...
...Cuzco fortnight ago, he ignored the hail of stones to walk two miles from the airport to his hotel. From a balcony, he warned the Indians about Communism: "Do not believe their foreign doctrines, do not believe in their paradise." When a delegation of Communists demanded "in the name of the people" that he leave town, Beltran replied: "I question your claim of representing the people of Cuzco. Good day, gentlemen." When the Red-controlled Cuzco Workers' Federation tried to run him out of town with a 24-hour general strike, Beltran saw to it that local police...