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Three prominent Indian educators from Poona University, who are studying general education at Harvard for several months, agreed last night that "over-specialization" is the basic danger to their country's universities. The educators are part of a large exchange program, sponsored by the U.S. State Department...
Sadanand Kogekar, professor of History and Political Sciences at Poona's Ferguson College, explained that the emphasis of Indian education has been shifting to technical subjects and probably will continue in this direction...
...almost daily boasts about Soviet power. Of Khrushchev's speech on nuclear weapons, one Indian complained: "It reminds us of what Nehru said three years ago: 'Some people talk about peace so loudly it sounds like war.' " The only open show of reserve was at Poona, once the citadel of British Imperial rule and now the site of India's impressive, 1,000-cadet National Defense Academy...
...class, when the British sent him to Sandhurst military college in 1918. There he got to be a crack rifle shot and earned his cricket "blue."; Gazetted an officer in the British army, he fought with the Cameronians (2nd Scottish Rifles) at Kohat in 1921 and with the 17th Poona Horse in Waziristan in 1924. He was Britain's top policeman in the Khyber Pass area for 20 years before becoming Joint Secretary of the Indian Government Defense Ministry at New Delhi, and, after the partition of India, Pakistan's first Defense Secretary...
...sloop Fresh Breeze, the Duke's Fox-designed Coweslip, and his slim Dragon-class sloop Bluebottle. But they had a fine time anyway. At his home, a converted waterfront warehouse, Uffa presided over the nightly after-dinner festivities that lasted until dawn. At a dinner for the Imperial Poona Yacht Club, he donned a pith helmet and led his cronies in spoon-hammering sea chanties. Said one Cowes pubkeeper: "There's pirates 'round Cowes at regatta time, and Uffa's the worst of the lot." Lusty Uffa Fox certainly has a touch of Kidd and Blackbeard...