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...Indian public opinion. In a speech to Parliament, he used, for Nehru, harsh words in reply to the weeks of billingsgate that have poured from Peking's press and radio. Nehru was "greatly distressed" at Red China's brutal suppression of the Tibetan revolt and at the "hapless plight" of the Tibetan people. In answering the charge that the Dalai Lama was being held against his will at Mussoorie (TIME, May 4), he obliquely called the Red Chinese liars. "They have used the language of the cold war," said Nehru, "regardless of truth and propriety." Characteristically, Nehru regretted...
...hapless wife had not only to keep house, bear children and submit to her mother-in-law's tyranny, but also try desperately to hold her husband against the competition of "pillow" geishas, concubines and casual prostitutes. The tea ceremony, the fan, the kimono, flower arranging, the obi, the intricate hairdo, the beautifully mannered deference-all became subtle weapons of allurement. The kimono was cunningly cut to reveal the nape of the neck, a feature that to Japanese men seems more erotic than bosom or thigh...
From the opening whistle, the Cornell game could hardly be called a contest. Harry Pratt had a single save in the Crimson nets during the first period, while Peter Tague stopped only three more shots in the rest of the "contest." Jack Detwiler, victim of a seemingly hapless defense, nevertheless stopped the nearly astronomical total of 61 shots...
...Dartmouth notwithstanding, the varsity has been playing good basketball, or at least good enough to beat teams of Brown's calibre. In both its games last weekend, the Crimson showed unquestionable strength, and with a break or two would have probably beaten Cornell as well as hapless Columbia...
...football team caused some hopes to rise with a win over Lehigh, and then followed that with a triumph over hapless Columbia. The U.S. failed in 7David Riesman came to Harvard as first Ford Professor of Social Sciences. Riesman is now selecting a heterogeneous elite for his course on American character...