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...November of that fall Lowell challenged Dunster to a football game. This was the first effort towards inter-House athletics, and the course of future inter-House athletic rivalry was set as Dunster defeated the Bell Ringers...
...attended by President Eisenhower, is scorned as "just a gesture" by U.S. friends such as Galo Plaza. Except for Communist crises -the Red threat to Guatemala -Secretary of State Dulles is virtually inaccessible to hemisphere diplomats for serious discussions. He is criticized for staying at the 1954 Tenth Inter-American Conference in Caracas just long enough to jam through an anti-Communist resolution, and fly home, leaving the question of economic relations, dear to the hearts of the other delegations, to be handled by subordinates...
...aerial jitneys, such as war-surplus C-46s converted from U.S. Air Force freighters into lumbering passenger planes. Chile's thriving Cinta line paints its four-engined airliners Panagra yellow and green, and calls one flight El Latinamericano in cousinly association to Panagra's crack El Inter Americano -but not even dubbing the plane "Super DC-4B" makes it anything but an un-pressurized, 230-m.p.h...
Varig of Brazil offers champagne-and-lobster catering. The turboprop Britannias of Aeronaves de Mexico feature speed; they have cut the New York-Mexico City flight to 6½ hours. Safety standards are generally high because inter national airlines must meet the require ments of the strictest country they land in, which in the case of 26 Latin American airlines...
...Unless Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and other sects are merged into or replaced by a great World Brotherhood, sectarianism will continue to divide the world, isolate peoples, and stimulte conflict which is deadly dangerous in the atomic-space age. (Sometimes it is inter-sect strife which causes destruction and death, as in India. Sometimes it is the point of view of a sect or sectarian which hinders effective action, as with the student in my Survey of Civilization course who wrote, "World peace is an ideal which can never be reached, for when Christ cast Adam...