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...Tennistar Karol Fageros, 26, whose broken ribs were mending in a Youngstown, Ohio hospital, after an Ohio Turnpike collision between a truck and a chartered bus carrying Karol and the New York Skyscrapers pro basketball team on an exhibition tour; Miriam Amanda ("Ma") Ferguson, 85, first woman ever elected a state Governor (in Texas in 1924, after her late husband, Governor James Ferguson, was impeached for misuse of state funds), recovering in an Austin hospital after a heart attack...
Mystic Krishna Menon (no kin to India's Foreign Minister) distressed Koestler with his custom of inviting his followers to reap the spiritual benefits of listening to "the bathroom noises of the Swami's morning toilet." Anandamayee Ma was nearly 63, but she looked like "a gypsy beauty in her forties." She played constantly with her beautiful toes, and disconcerted Koestler by giggling and writhing while she delivered her spiritual wisdom to a rapt audience...
...Free China Fortnightly, in August announced plans to start a China Democratic Party to give the Kuomintang its first real opposition (TIME, Sept. 19), the authorities apparently decided to arrest him first on sedition charges and then see what proof they could find. They also arrested his business manager, Ma Chih-su, 38, and his former accountant and secretary, quiet, moody Liu Tzu-ying, 54. Without waiting for the trial, the government's Central Daily News laid out the government's case. Secretary Liu had confessed, reported the News, that before Nanking fell in 1949 he was chairman...
...party in this pageant was dead serious. As Premier Souvanna returned from his royal audience, Pathet Lao rebels crossed the Nam Ma river in force and threatened the northern provincial center of Samneua. The attack was headed by five Communist-led battalions reported to have crossed the northeastern border recently from Communist North Viet Nam. "This is a national crisis," cried General Ouane Ratthikoun, chief of the royal Laotian armed forces. "It is a time for unity." The U.S., which had long felt that Vientiane had not been awake to the danger in the north and thinks that Prince Boun...
...Though it produces and exports more goods than ever, Latin America's income from foreign trade is dropping. The prices of what it sells (coffee, farm products, petroleum, minerals) are falling; the prices of what it buys (industrial ma-thinery, tractors, cars) are rising steadily. ¶Foreign private investment-as lately as five years ago the Latin American area was the No. 1 beneficiary-is falling fast. Capital from U.S. Government sources has also been decreasing. In 1959, the Export-Import Bank of Washington collected far more in repayments and interest from the region than it laid...