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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Main points: 1) in the East, China will give up its occupation of the Longju outpost, six miles inside the Indian frontier, if India will evacuate ten other passes and strongpoints along the border; 2) in the Western or Kashmir region, China claims to have been in occupation of large areas of Ladakh not for just two years but since 1950, and with the help of frontier-guard units and "3,000 civilian builders" to have laid big roads, "cutting across high mountains, throwing bridges and building culverts" without India's knowledge, thus making "absolutely unconvincing" India...
...youth brigades of Chinese. The Communist Sinkiang Daily claimed that natives "voluntarily gave up their houses and beds to these young people." Last month, in a special meeting, the Sinkiang party organization decided the opposition of "a small number of demobilized servicemen and commune members" has become "the main obstacle to a further strengthening of the people's communes," decreed that, beginning this week, "the stubborn resistance of a few rightist opposition elements who attempt to carry out underground activities should be promptly corrected...
...Kansas City thinks that these problems will go unsolved. The dirty old building at 18th Street and Grand Avenue has an almost palpable air of permanence, and Roy Roberts' papers will go on pushing for the main cause to which they were dedicated at birth: what's good for Kansas City...
Over the Bounding Main. Delfino became intrigued by the possibilities of Down Under livestock in 1957, made a deal with the New Zealand government to ship 1,500 steers to the U.S. He chartered an old coal-burning British banana boat with a Panamanian registry, a Filipino captain, Australian officers, Chinese crewmen and Indian and Filipino herdsmen to handle the cattle. But he was in trouble before he cleared port...
Smog Reliever. The automobile industry will use an inexpensive device to control smog-producing automobile fumes in all cars manufactured for sale in California in 1961. The industry has discovered that hot gases from the exhaust pipe are not the main source of air pollution; smog is mainly caused by the oily vapors, principally hydrocarbons, that gather in the crankcase, are normally vented into the open air. The new device is a tube from the crankcase vent to the intake manifold. This carries the hydrocarbons through the engine, where they are burned up. Price: about...