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...border arranged between British India and Tibet in 1914, and named after the head British negotiator. Running across N.E.F.A. from Bhutan to Burma, the line set the border at the watershed at the crest of the highest mountains. But the Red Chinese declared the McMahon Line an "illegal, null and void" product of "British imperialism," claimed that the actual border ran along the southern foot of the mountains...
...insurer, is willing to bet money on this sweeping proposition. Starting this week in California, it will use grades to sort out safe drivers from bad risks in the 1640-25 age group. Insurance companies normally raise premiums by some 200% to 400% on a car driven by a null single male (girls are considered more conservative drivers, pay no extra premium). Now State Farm Mutual will cut insurance premiums by $10 to $100 on cars driven by unmarried males in eleventh grade through college, provided that they rank in the top 20% of their classes, have B averages...
WITH the publishing industry churning out a flood of un, anti, null- and non-books, it has not been a good year for genuine books. But a few emerged-although perhaps no single volume could pass the Robinson Crusoe test beloved of Sunday supplements (Which ten books, apart from a guide to edible fungi, would you take with you if cast away on a desert island...
...Mary Bunting slipped back to the Yale lab. "When I was home all day, I got tired," she says. "When I was working part-time, I could enjoy the ironing." She needed spirit. The Buntings were building their own house. While digging the cellar, they all lived in a null goat house -after fumigating...
Ultimatum. Since February, United Nations forces in the Congo had been armed with a Security Council resolution calling upon Tshombe to dismiss the 500 European officers leading his null army-and actively working toward maintaining Katanga's secession from the central Congo government, even at the cost of civil war. Last month, the Congo's moderate Premier Cyrille Adoula asked the U.N. to enforce the resolution. O'Brien gave Tshombe until Sept. 9 to get rid of the Europeans...