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...Quickly the government rounded up 14 sergeants and corporals, opened a military court to investigate the affair. As the noncoms blabbed, the court arrested a group of army and aviation officers. Then it netted two big fish: elderly (71) ex-President Carlos Ibañez del Campo and Colonel Ramón Vergara Montero, retired air force chief...
Freshman runners were all nervous, according to Coach Mikkola, but they showed up well. They beat the Ram mile squad with a slow 3:33.7, and they finished third in front of the varsity in the two-mile event...
...immediate purpose is to isolate Israel and thus neutralize the supposedly dangerous new state. Great Britain will succeed if the United States can be influenced to follow British leadership in the U.N. The first step would be to ram through the U.N. a modified version of Count Bernadotte's plan giving the entire Negeb to Arabian states. The second step would be enforcement of the plan by stringent economic sanctions...
Chanted over & over to the accompaniment of clapping hands, this Song of Ram has for generations been Hinduism's most popular hymn. It was a favorite with Gandhi, who believed that mere repetition of the name of the god Ram was an effective means of banishing fear. Gandhi added two lines of his own to the song: "Ishvar [Hindustani for God] and Allah are both thy names; give wisdom to all." Gandhi encouraged the use of the amended version to promote Hindu-Moslem harmony...
Recently the Song of Ram has pointed up another disharmony-Moslems & Hindus v. Christians. In the dusty railway town of Jhansi, 225 miles south of Delhi, students of the Christian High School asked permission to sing the hymn during their daily prayers. School authorities refused, on the grounds that it would be inappropriate to worship non-Christian gods in a Christian institution. Representatives of the 800 students promptly protested that they merely wanted to do the will of Gandhi, who "died not only for India but for the whole of mankind...