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Useless piles of cement still stood high on Rangoon's docks, tying up harbor traffic and running up demurrage charges. In all, 124,000 tons of it had been unloaded on an inexperienced Burmese trade delegation by Communist negotiators in return for surplus rice (TIME, May 21). Ordinarily, the Burmese would have been delighted by India's offer last week to buy 50,000 tons...
...Tiger." (The nickname, according to a wifely indiscretion, derives not only from the fact that he was born on Monday, "the day of the tiger," but also from "his temper.") A colleague of U Nu since the '30s, when both were leaders in the anti-British activities of Rangoon University students, U Ba Swe narrowly escaped execution during World War II when the Japanese discovered that he had been using his position as chief of their puppet "civil defense unit" in Rangoon to cover up his activities as a leader of Burma's anti-Japanese resistance movement. Released...
Last fall the U.S. State Department sent Althea on a good-will tour abroad. Her enthusiasm plus the responsibility of representing her country did wonders for her often erratic game. From Rangoon to Stockholm her concentration never wa vered. Only Angela Mortimer had the Indian sign on her (in the Scandinavian indoor, the Egyptian international and the Alexandria finals). But last week Althea clipped the wings of Angela, too. Uncertain footwork and an unreliable backhand are large faults to be covered up, even by Althea's grim determination. But so far Althea has managed. When she turns...
...reduce all prison sentences by six months to two years, and to commute all death sentences to 20-year terms. Animals and birds awaiting slaughter will be released, and slaughterhouses, fish markets and butcher shops will be closed. More than 100,000 Burmese will make a pilgrimage to Rangoon, where 2,500 young men will be ordained to the Buddhist priesthood...
...Cave. This week in Rangoon, 500 monks chanted through the last of 1,600 hours of reciting aloud the 14,804 pages of the Tipitakas,† the Buddhist scriptures. They sat in a "cave"-a vast jumble of rough boulders on the outside, and a blue, gold and scarlet auditorium within (capacity: 15,000), which was built by Burma's devout Premier U Nu to house the Sixth Buddhist World Council (TIME, June 7, 1954). The council has been going on for two years in this facsimile of a real cave (where the first council was held...