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...When there is chaos in China," says an old Chinese proverb, "it strikes Szechwan first; when there is peace, it comes to Szechwan first." Last week chaos ruled in the southwestern prov ince of Szechwan. Peking wall posters reported that an extraordinary - and almost unbelievable - total of 10,000 persons had been killed or wounded in four weeks of fighting involving ma chine guns, hand grenades and poisoned drinking water. Among the casualties were 200 Maoists drowned in the Yangzte River on the way to a rally, the victims of Red Guards who had defected from Mao's Cultural...
Last week it happened again in the arrival of a planeload of emergency supplies donated by the U.S. for flood-battered Stanleyville. It was quite a moment for the lazy little river capital of Eastern Prov ince, stronghold of Red-backed Antoine Gizenga, whose own rebellion against the central government had for a time seemed as serious as Moise Tshombe's in Katanga...
...recently centered in southern Indiana (TIME, Oct. 10). The nature of the illness has long been known, along with the fact that it breaks out every summer in most of Japan, parts of Manchuria and all of Korea, and a few weeks later in Russia's Maritime Prov ince. However, the most important questions could not be answered for years: How is the disease transmitted? Where does it come from? Who is susceptible? How can it be controlled...
...Springfield Fri. Oct. 24 Dartmouth at Hanover Wed. Oct.29 M.I.T. at M.I.T. 3:00 p.m. Sat. Nov. 1 Amherst 1:30 p.m. Sat. Nov. 8 Princeton at Princeton 11:30 a.m. Fri. Nov. 11 Connecticut at Storrs 2:00 p.m. Sat. Nov. 15 Brown at Prov'd'nce 11:30 a.m. Fri. Nov. 21 Yale 2:00 p.m. FRESHMAN SOCCER Sat. Oct. 4 Taber at Marion 3:00 p.m. Wed. Oct. 8 Million Academy 3:45 p.m. Wed. Oct. 16 Exeter 3:45 p.m. Sat. Oct. 18 Tufts 3:00 p.m. Fri. Oct. 24 Dartmouth at Hanover...
...also to dominate Canada's Aluminium Ltd., the second biggest. He ordered them to dispose of their holdings in one company or the other. He also left a loophole for the Justice Department. He ruled that if competition diminishes during the next five years and the trustbusters can prov it, they may come back and try again to break up Alcoa. That was not much consolation for antitrust's Javerts...