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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...China last year massed 60,000 troops in Tibet and pointed their spearheads across the Himalayan passes toward India; it started building military roads right up to India's frontier; it laid down air bases within easy range of New Delhi and the teeming Ganges plain; it sent armed reconnaissance squads to undermine India's shaky border states-Nepal. Bhutan and Sikkim; it printed borderland maps that showed Indian districts as part of Red China. Nehru's reaction to all this (and to Red China's open call for "Asian unity" under Red China...
...Lillehei took 17 minutes to close the opening in Gregory's heart, believes it is the first time this delicate operation had been done with the heart in plain view and "dry," though still beating because its muscle was getting a full blood supply. Gregory stood the operation well but died a few days later of pneumonia (to which children with such heart defects are especially liable...
...from the Red-ridden Italian film industry. When Scelba set out to reclaim some 1,300 pieces of confiscated Fascist property now occupied by the Communists, he effectively quashed Red objections by urging that the reclaimed properties be turned into badly needed schools. Last week the new Premier made plain his identity with the West by urging Italians to ratify EDC without waiting for a settlement on Trieste...
After the powerful International Typographical Union started publishing its own daily newspapers eight years ago, the union made plain its objective. Said the I.T.U. Executive Council: "[We want to make it tough] for an unreasonable employer by reaching his most sensitive spot -his pocketbook." The I.T.U. carefully picked its own spots, started dailies in twelve towns; in each there was only one newspaper, and its publisher had refused to deal with the union. I.T.U. President Woodruff Randolph not only hoped by competition to force the nonunion papers to recognize I.T.U. but also expected to give jobs to unemployed union members...
...orchids, and finds the barley harvests lying like some sort of killed light in the thin blue air. Wild flowers splurge -in summer the whole Himalaya seems a giant's rock garden. Down from the mountains to the high plateau: yak tents like black tarantulas on the golden plain; cold Mongol faces that, breaking suddenly into gentle smiles, seem like rocks come to life; skin coracles for crossing the rivers ; and never a wheel to be found except the prayer wheels spinning windily in the wayside shrines...