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...more than four years the most obvious flaw in the shining moral armor of India's Jawaharlal Nehru has been the case of Sheik Mohammed Abdullah, the strapping (6 ft. 2 in.) "Lion of Kashmir." Since August 1953 Abdullah has been held a prisoner without trial. His only crime: he pursued policies in Kashmir that were unacceptable to India's Prime Minister...
Once Nehru found use for the Lion. Then the Sheik was Nehru's honored comrade in the fight against the British, and the powerful leader who could bind largely Moslem Kashmir to the new Indian nation in 1947. Abdullah became the state of Kashmir's first Premier and symbolized the ability of Moslems and Hindus to believe in one another. But as Jawaharlal Nehru, in his hardening determination to hold strategic Kashmir for India, brushed off even U.N. demands for the Kashmir plebiscite he had promised in 1947, Abdullah began talking of making his state independent...
...Wept. The Lion felt Nehru's anger and knew that his disciple and Deputy Premier, Bakshi Ghulam Mohammed, was plotting to take power. "One day," he said, "I called a confidential meeting of the party and said that if they wanted a new leader in whom they could have unqualified trust I would be the first to welcome him. Bakshi said right away, 'Who is the man who wants to take over from you, Sheik Sahib?' and I said: 'You, Bakshi.' And Bakshi wept...
Both teams opened the game in a zone, but Columbia switched into a man-to-man near the end of the first half in an effort to stem a Crimson offensive rally, marked by excellent outside shooting by the whole team. But the new Lion strategy was to fail in its purpose...
...brief flurry, featuring 25-foot shots from the side and corner by Lion high scorer Rudy Milkey, was able to chop the Crimson lead to six points in the opening minutes of the second half. To quell the Lion threat, Coach Floyd Wilson sent the varsity out of its 2-1-2 into a 1-3-1 zone, which is especially effective in coping with outside shooting from the sides...