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...China has launched a virtual cold war against India." grumbled New Delhi's Hindustan Times. Nehru, of course, did not go that far. But he too complained last week that, having overrun Tibet while India kept quiet, the Reds have declared Indian currency illegal in Tibet and started a crackdown on Indian traders, even refused to recognize Indian jurisdiction over thousands of Indians resident in Tibet. ("These persons who have been residing in Tibet for long periods are, to all intents and purposes, Chinese nationals," said Peking.) The chance that the 12,396 Tibet refugees in India would...
...when Alla herself returned from Broadway to live in one of her own villas as a paying guest, an era was ending. The old faces were fading fast; the place was soon overrun by roaches and call girls. The last big spender was a happy drunk from Kansas City who made his fortune turning out horror pictures for the kiddies. For months last year, all drinks served in the Garden bar were put on his tab, and eventually he broke the record rung up by Benchley and his pals...
...world." He refused to give such a pledge, and denied the right even of a Labor Party Conference to bind "those of us who have the responsibility of leadership" in a future Labor government. To ban the bomb unilaterally "would be handing the Soviet Union the power to overrun Europe, without any fear of retaliation...
Buffer State. Over the centuries, the mountain-locked nation of Tibet has often been overrun by invaders-Mongols, Manchus and Gurkhas, but most often Chinese. Whenever China was strong, it would send a garrison to occupy Lhasa. Whenever China was weak Tibetans would drive the garrison out. In 1904, uneasy about Russian encroachments in central Asia, the British launched an expedition from India and captured Lhasa with little difficulty. To keep each other at arm's length, Britain and Czarist Russia agreed to make a buffer state of Tibet and signed the Convention of 1907 recognizing China...
Meanwhile Hollywood, where all the television westerns are filmed, had begun to jump like a bronc with a belly full of bedsprings. Every rent-out ranch within a hundred miles was overrun with milling steers, yipping dudes and grinding cameras. The riding academies were booked solid, and the shooting instructors were taking in more money than the psychoanalysts. Horses were making more than people-up to $100 a day, while the average extra was getting $22.05. And the Hollywood hills were alive with "Method Cowboys" who would display their diplomas from the Actors' Studio at the drop...