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...past Nepal (54,000 sq. mi.) maintained regular relations only with Britain and with occasional visiting Chinese missions. But Britain's departure from India, Nepal's next-door neighbor, has already begun to create a political vacuum into which the U.S. is stepping...
...arranged by Leonide Massine, are only moderately exciting, but Massine stomps and silhouettes himself through one fine routine and he has coached Vera-Ellen into a splendid frenzy of ruffles. A ringing, all-Latin score by Cuba's Ernesto Lecuona includes several probable hits (Another Night Like This, Mi Vida, Giu-Pi-Pia, etc.) and a wild, magniloquent chorus as the camera honors some beautiful Costa Rican landscapes. Lecuona's music overwhelms some of the movie; it enriches much of the rest with the pleasantly itchy stitching of guitars...
...tout's secret that U.S. Delegate Warren Austin, as "personal representative" of President Truman, had formally offered to turn over to U.N. the Army's 2½-sq.-mi. Presidio, perched spectacularly above San Francisco Bay. But Russia's Georgi Saksin promptly demanded that San Francisco be barred from the track...
...Saporiti, a 43-year-old Italian journalist who had worked in Lisbon for two years under a sojourn permit, was notified that he would have to leave Portugal by Sept. 3. When he tried to have the order rescinded, he was advised that something mi^ht be done if he would hand in his resignation as TIME correspondent for publication in Portugal's press...
Quentin Huang, who before the war had been rector of a parish in Nanchang for about ten years, will be Bishop of Kunming, a diocese covering the two southeast provinces of Yunnan and Kweichow. Almost one and a half times as large as California (158,297 sq. mi.), it has an estimated population of 24,000,000; 20% of its people are tribal, all are poor. Only a handful are Christian. Said Bishop Huang after his consecration: "Our opportunities are many, our challenges are great-and our needs in personnel and funds are enormous...