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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...neighbors, while treating the Indians with scorn. In January, Premier Chou En-lai ratified a border treaty with Burma, impudently drawing a line that gave Burma a small slice of northeastern India as part of the deal. Except for disputed Mount Everest, the Chinese have about reached a border pact with Nepal (Red China naturally wants the world's highest peak). Now Pakistan President Mohammed Ayub Khan says he plans to get together with the Chinese and draw a northern border for the Pakistan-held sector of Kashmir...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India: Very Patient Nehru | 3/3/1961 | See Source »

After the Callahan-Volpe pact, attention shifted to Mayor Gibbs of Newton, who had been an opponent of the toll road since its inception. Although reconciled to the need for a link between the Massachusetts Pike and Boston, Gibbs championed a freeway that would edge Waltham and Watertown, that would go down along the banks of the Charles River and thereby reduce large tax losses that might result from the demolition of industrial and residential property in Newton...

Author: By Peter S. Britell, | Title: The Public Weal | 2/23/1961 | See Source »

...uniform terms covering 25 states and many of the major U.S. haulers. Contracts in a score more states come up for renewal during the next six months, and Hoffa will demand the same expiration date on each one: February 1964. Then, he will hold out for a nationwide pact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Labor: The Power to Paralyze | 2/17/1961 | See Source »

Nevertheless the article lists ex-Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida among those who fear Reischauer's appointment. It explains that conservatives are worried that his appointment will give aid and comfort to pro-Communist leftwing intellectuals opposed to the United States-Japan security pact...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Japanese Disapproval Of Reported Position Surprises Reischauer | 2/15/1961 | See Source »

...watch magnate. the Rumanian-born widow, now 34, charged that in 1956, two years before he died at 69, Bulova "harassed and importuned" her into waiving any interest in his estate in return for a $600,000 cash settlement. "He told me that if I signed the pact it would lead to our living together in harmony and trust," but within a few months, "he banished me from our home," later bequeathed her only $25,000. "It is regrettable," she concluded bitterly, "that my husband made a trading post of our marital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Feb. 10, 1961 | 2/10/1961 | See Source »

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