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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most flagrant homosexual. Nor did they change the attitude of Myles's closest friend, willowy, 19-year-old Lee Smart, who at 16 got 30 years for clubbing a man to death. Last week the pair conspired to set off one of the most harrowing riots in the recent years of trouble in the nation's prisons...
...result, found by a recent General Accounting Office survey: of the 1,200,000 vets and dependents now on pensions (1959 cost: $1.1 billion), 17% own $10,000 or more in stocks and other family property, 3.4% of the married pensioners have $5,000 family incomes or better...
...Buddhists and, standing beneath a golden umbrella, gave them his blessing. Then, with his retinue, the Dalai Lama boarded an air-conditioned railway coach to go to the former British hill station of Mussoorie, where he will take up his residence in exile and "rest and reflect on recent events" in his crushed and suffering homeland...
...Labor Leader Tom Mboya against the whites. But the fact remains that a few years ago the Mau Mau were just as ready to dismember Asians as Europeans (though Nehru blindly urged Kenya's Indians to support the Mau Mau "liberation army"), and that in some of the recent riots in Nyasaland, Indians and their shops were the chief victims. "We are like a football," says one Nyasaland Moslem. "We get kicked from the European side. We run to the African side. The Africans kick us, and we run back to the Europeans...
After a good season start, the varsity hit a slump in recent games. Consecutive losses to Cornell and M.I.T. make it almost imperative that they come through with a good showing this afternoon...