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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Should China seize Sikkim, it would be in a position to close the narrow neck of land linking India proper to the state of Assam and the North East Frontier Agency, as well as open a route from China to East Pakistan. Well aware of the danger, India has kept two divisions of trained mountain troops based at Kalimpong for just such an eventuality...
...Your article places the facts in proper balance and should help immeasurably to dispel confusion over this proven preventive measure...
Indian jet fighters streaked from the sky to smash the armored spearhead. Fearful of losing the strategic city of Jammu, the Indian high command ordered the drive on Lahore, removing the battle from Kashmir to Pakistan proper, and changing a brush-fire war into a full-scale challenge. The escalation had increased, and the suspense was over. Whatever else Ayub Khan and Shastri accomplished last week, they had noisily reopened the question of Kashmir...
...because bank loans are becoming harder to obtain and the bond market is weak, many firms are planning to float new stock issues in the fall. They have been waiting since spring for the right time to bring their issues to market, feel that the current advance provides the proper opportunity. The market showed signs of profit-taking at week's end, may yet have some rocky sessions ahead. Many analysts are predicting, nonetheless, that it will soon break through to a new peak. Whatever the fall may bring, the market has exuberantly dissolved its summer doubts...
Post-mortem studies show that, with prompt detection and proper treatment, half of those who die of head injuries could have been saved. Lasting or delayed disability could be similarly reduced, reported Pakistani-born Dr. Ayub K. Ommaya, of the National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Blindness at Bethesda, Md. Detection, however, is doubly difficult in the peculiar and treacherous kind of injury known as "whiplash"-the result of the sudden forward-and-backward snapping of the head that is common in rear-end auto accidents...