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...your Jan. 13 issue you published a cartoon of John F. Dulles characterized as a rocket. Recently the Sigma Nu fraternity house patterned its winter carnival ice statue after your cartoon. We were fortunate enough to win third prize in the statue competition. I enclose a picture...
...Britons, domestic nu clear energy will total 6 million kw., v. only 1.6 million for the U.S. The British have also landed a contract for a $72 million, 200,000-kw. power plant in Italy, expect to sew up at least five other foreign contracts totaling about $500 million by the end of 1958. Target for 1967: the bulk of the business from Europe's six-nation Euratom combine, whose purpose is to build a common nuclear power grid of 15 million kw. Russia is reportedly building a 150,000-kw. plant for Czechoslovakia, a 100,000-kw. plant...
...meditation temple in Rangoon to talk religion with a Buddhist scholar, to Gandhi's shrine in New Delhi to pray and deliver-a little shakily-Lead, Kindly Light. Only once, before Burma's Premier, did modest Marian Anderson show any sign of discomfort. Eulogized U Nu for the CBS cameras: "The beauty and charm of your mind are fully expressed in the pair of your dazzling eyes and your childlike lips...
...Burma. U Nu, a true neutral in East-West affairs, has no illusions about Communists at home. His army has killed thousands of Communist insurgents in nine years' fighting, and recently stepped-up campaigns have resulted in mass surrender of rebels. Citizens may now travel, safe from guerrilla raids, in all but the most mountainous parts of the country. Strapped for foreign exchange as a result of a slump in rice exports and now-regretted barter deals with Communist countries, Burma has lately made some gains with its economic expansion program, though it still suffers direly from severe inflation...
...monarchists shouted "Vive le Roi!" Among those present: King Paul and Queen Frederika of Greece, Prince Jean of Luxembourg, Princess Beatrix of The Netherlands, ex-King Umberto of Italy and Europe's two other leading pretenders, Spain's Don Juan and Portugal's Dom Duarte Nuño. Notably missing: the Windsors of Great Britain...