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...English schools, Her fragile Highness Queen Hope Namgyal, 25, was in London when she learned of the Red Chinese threat to her tiny Himalayan kingdom. Hope was brave. "There is an old Tibetan prophecy which says that trouble in Sikkim would be as rare as a comet at midday," she said, "and also would be like the shadow of an eagle's wing." Besides, she added, "there is the Sikkim national guard to protect us"-fierce Sikkimese all, to be sure, but only 280 of them. The Queen flew to New York for a medical checkup, visited with friends...
...flock of pigeons burst skyward into the midday Yokohama sun, released in celebration from their papier-mâché prison. Bands blared and confetti swirled over the waters of Tokyo Bay. Japan, the world's biggest shipbuilder, was launching the world's biggest ship: the Tokyo Maru, a bulb-nosed 1,006-ft.-long, 150,000-ton oil tanker...
...Nearby county marshals halted the vehicle with crackling rifle fire and the Negro driver was killed. After being fired on by pistols and a rifle, one Guard unit opened up for ten minutes with a machine gun on a band of rioters, sent them fleeing. SATURDAY By midday, the number of Guardsmen patrolling the area had swelled to 4,000 and 700 more were being flown in from Fresno. They set about "sweeping" three separate zones totaling 40 blocks; the largest was a section of Watts bounded by Century Boulevard, Central Avenue, Compton Avenue, and 103rd and 104th Streets. Forming...
Earlier in the day, an estimated 1000 demonstrators braved the near 90-degree midday heat to keep a half-hour silent vigil in front of the White House. At least one man collapsed under the withering...
Concerts & Cannelloni. Last week Spoleto was swinging with the usual galaxy of aristocrats, film stars and jet set. The earnest and the merely cultured rapidly settled into the ritual of their daily rounds: breakfast at 10, a midday chamber concert, a five-o'clock poetry reading and then a play at the Seven O'Clock Theater. Ballet or opera was the choice of enchantments for the evening-Choreographer John Cranko's intensely dramatic Romeo and Juliet, the swirling color of Yugoslav folk dances, or Conductor Thomas Schippers' sonorous rendition of Verdi's Otello...