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...great powers in Cairo, as soon as it seems safe or feasible. We do not mean that President Eisenhower should float like Cleopatra down the Nile on a bubble-top barge, nor that Egyptians should be induced to shout "Aisha Khrushchev," through the streets of Cairo, nor that Pandit Nehru should stage a passive demonstration. But the collective action of these figures would not fail to make a very strong impression upon the belligerents. This plan may seem wild and hallucinatory. But, in this case, it matches the situation...
...school of dental hygiene, courses in hotel and restaurant management. In 1954 he took over the dying (150 students) Bergen Junior College in nearby Teaneck, included both campuses in the single full-fledged four-year college. He persuaded a steady stream of celebrities-e.g., Ralph Bunche, Madame Pandit, Perle Mesta, Gloria Swanson-to visit and speak. Finally, Sammartino's biggest dream came true. This June the New Jersey State Board of Education gave the once struggling two-year college permission to call itself a university...
Behind him the Vice President left crackling reaction to his long-distance debate with neutralism's high priest, Pandit Nehru (see FOREIGN NEWS). In Manila, on the first stopover of his journey (TIME, July 16), Nixon had re-emphasized U.S. views on "the fearful risk" of neutralism and the wisdom of collective security. In London, 6,667 miles away, attending the conference of British Commonwealth Prime Ministers, Nehru's sensitive ears picked up a personal implication. Retorted he: Nixon-Dulles pronouncements on neutralism constituted neither a democratic nor a happy approach to good international relations...
...they surged, shattering street lights, tearing up railroad tracks, erecting barricades, stoning cars containing members of Nehru's Congress Party. Police lobbed tear-gas shells into the rioting mobs, then fired into them pointblank. Tough Sikh reinforcements were called out, and nearly 2,000 people were arrested. Bitterly, Pandit Nehru said that Bombay is "not ready for self-rule" and will not get it for at least five years...
...past ten.* The runners-up, in the order of their public appeal: U.S. Ambassador to Italy Clare Boothe Luce, Mamie Eisenhower, Helen Keller, Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, Madame Chiang Kaishek, Britain's Princess Margaret (a newcomer to the top ten), India's Madame Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, Maine's Republican Senator Margaret Chase Smith, former Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare Oveta Culp Hobby...