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...Very Antithesis." Informed of Nehru's comment on his arrival in Karachi, Pakistan, Nixon said: "I think if Mr. Nehru would read my speech carefully . . . [he] would find that my speech is the very antithesis of undemocratic procedures . . . My answer to Mr. Nehru would be that anyone who suggests that Communist assistance ... is not inconsistent with independence and freedom is not reading correctly the lessons of history...
...Estes Kefauver took the Senate floor to complain that the Nixon-Dulles policies may "drive India and the other nations of Asia who follow her lead into more open friendship with the Soviet system." Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey suggested that Nixon, in sounding off about Nehru in Karachi, had used "the wrong place to say the wrong thing at the wrong time." Although some State Department deskmen agreed that it was indelicate diplomacy to answer India's leader from the capital of his unfriendly neighbor, the Administration policymakers figured that Nixon had said substantially the right thing...
...rules in Pakistan called for, it was learned that in California the contestants would have to appear, clad only in bathing suits, before men, women and a TV audience of millions, "to have their physical appearances assessed and judged as in a cattle market," as the Times of Karachi put it. "A disgrace to the Eastern social order and conventions," proclaimed the head of the powerful Brotherhood of Mullahs. In the face of the uproar, the contest promoters gave up. "We are back in Victorian error," sighed...
...figure for the wool-hats. Correct distance, Atlanta to Karachi: 8,700 miles...
...jazz-lorn city of Dacca, Pakistan, Dizzy discovered a ragged boy playing a one-stringed instrument on the street, and found the weird sounds so congenial that he stopped and had a jam session. In Karachi the first show was half-empty, the second nearly full, the third packed. "Man," bragged Dizzy, "give us three shows, and we'll create our own audience." At a garden party in Ankara, Gillespie saw a tattered crowd peering from outside the fence and insisted that they be admitted. "We came to play for the poor people as well as the rich people...