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...Lion catchers' exercise wasn't finished. Neville singled to start the seventh, went to second on a groundout, and to third on Gertz' third passed ball. Stephenson brought him in with a squeeze bunt...
First-Class Lion. As Nikita Khrushchev celebrated his 70th birthday last week, the image of Lenin appeared in yet another prominent place: Nikita's chest. The Order of Lenin was pinned on him by President Leonid Brezhnev. There were other decorations. Outer Mongolia awarded Khrushchev its Order of Suhe-Bator, Czechoslovakia weighed in with the Order of the White Lion, first class, with gold chain, and top orders came from East Germany and Rumania. The congratulations almost recalled the "personality cult" that once surrounded Stalin; they salute Nikita as a "militant leader, a fiery tribune, giving his burning energy...
...hopes of easing the religious tensions, Nehru early this month released Sheik Mohammed Abdullah, the Lion of Kashmir, who was jailed nearly eleven years ago for "conspiracy" to bring about Kashmirian independence. Nehru had hoped that Sheik Abdullah, a Moslem who believes in Hindu-Moslem cooperation, might find a solution to the Kashmir problem. Since his release, the former Kashmirian Prime Minister has been campaigning by Jeep through the towns and villages of Kashmir's Himalayan foothills, talking with old friends and supporters. His plan for settling Kashmir's future remains the same as always. Failing a plebiscite...
Angry Agreement. It was just this sort of talk that got the Lion thrown in jail the first time. Members of Nehru's Congress Party and the opposition found themselves for once in angry agreement, many of them demanding that the sheik be rearrested. Said Nehru's heir apparent, Minister Without Portfolio Lai Bahadur Shastri, with perhaps just a touch of that self-righteousness his boss had criticized: "There is, of course, complete freedom of expression in India. But there can be no freedom for preaching some kind of independence or secession from the Indian union...
...lion's head that bites...