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There are important practical reasons, as well as legal precedents, for extending recognition to Red China. One main advantage to the U.S. would be a likely rise in U.S. prestige among neutral Asian nations. Newly independent Asians tend to look upon Chiang's government as a remnant of a corrupt, colonial past--a past that for them the Communist seem to have destroyed. Asian nations like India, Burma, and Indonesia should be more willing to listen to U.S warning about the dangers of Red China if they do not think we are clinging to a discredited past...
Vanishing Breeds. When the first count was run on Christmas Day in 1900, birds were getting scarcer in the U.S. The great auk and Labrador duck were gone; the umbrageous flocks of passenger pigeons were reduced to a pathetic aviary remnant; the trumpeter swan seemed likely to be silenced forever. Then came bird-protection laws and treaties. Although these are still not fully enforced, nearly all the once-threatened birds have come back, some in greater numbers than ever before. Birders, as bird watchers call themselves, have multiplied with the birds. Only a handful of the watchers are professional ornithologists...
Glass in the Gum. Such biweekly settos are a "reformed" remnant of medieval tournaments in which Thai warriors jousted with sword and lance from the backs of elephants. Once a man was unseated, the fight was finished on foot, without weapons. After a while Thais stopped bothering with elephants and did all their scrapping hand to hand. Fighters took to wrapping their fists and forearms with cotton twine, dipping the resulting gauntlets into gum and sprinkling them liberally with broken glass. Before a fight, the gum was allowed to harden until a man's arm became a club. There...
More than the prickly heat was worrying Pandit Nehru. He was vexed about Goa, because the "inevitable historical process" of taking over this Portuguese colonial remnant had gone awry; the Goans had not risen up, as expected, to demand liberation, and Nehru had been made to look foolish. Nehru was also annoyed by his Minister of Labor who resigned from the Cabinet because Nehru had arbitrarily overruled the Labor Tribunal. But above all, Nehru showed telltale signs of jealousy. For one thing, Attlee & Co. Ltd. (of Great Britain) had poached on his position as No. 1 interpreter to the world...
...Jewish congregations all over the nation held special services to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the landing at New Amsterdam. The ceremonies began a scheduled nine-month round of tercentenary observances with the theme: "Man's Opportunities and Responsibilities under Freedom."* At the Manhattan synagogue of Shearith Israel (Remnant of Israel), the congregation founded by the settlers of 1654, the Rev. Dr. Louis C. Gerstein intoned the tercentenary prayer: "Lord our God ... deep gratitude wells up in our hearts as we remember that 300 years ago Thou didst guide a little band of Israel's children to these...