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This week, with only a fraction of the 23,000 non-repatriates still to arrive, the tumult in Indian Village began to subside. Sandhurst-trained General Thorat and his troops-the pick of India's professional army-showed impressive efficiency and tact in handling the physical transfer of the prisoners. There was considerable doubt, however, that the Indians would prove equally competent to handle the skulduggery sure to take place when the Communists get their chance to "explain" to each prisoner why he should change his mind and accept repatriation. And they were not prepared for a possible mass...
While parading with fellow cadets at Sandhurst, the 17-year-old Duke of Kent, seventh in succession to the throne, glanced up briefly as a flight of jets buzzed low over the parade ground. His sharp-eyed sergeant major halted the company, read off the duke (addressing him as "Prince Edward Sir"), gave him the same punishment extended to several other eye rollers: writing 100 times, "I must not look up at airplanes while on parade...
...Duke of Kent, 17-year-old first cousin of Queen Elizabeth and seventh in succession to the throne. In October he will become the first member of the royal family ever to enter the ranks as a private. After pre-cadet training, he will take the examinations for Sandhurst, Britain's West Point, hoping to make the army his career (preferably as a tank officer...
...King Feisal Avenue six deep last week. Watching from rooftops, veiled women set up the piercing wail of joy called Zaghareed. The object of the outcry, a smiling, slender lad in a slow-moving, blue 1953 Lincoln convertible surrounded by armored cars, replied again & again with precise Sandhurst salutes. The procession moved on to Jordan's Parliament building. There, dressed in the gilded blue uniform of an Arab Legion general, the lad rose from a satin throne and said in a loud, clear voice: "I swear by God to abide by the constitution and to be loyal...
...sick list included: King Tribhubana of Nepal, who flew to New Delhi for a consultation with his doctors; 17-year-old King Hussein of Jordan, who was excused from his military classes at Sandhurst to have a sinus operation in London; Finland's President Juho Paasikivi, 82, ordered by his doctors to take a week's rest when they decided he was working too hard; and Prince Bernhard of The Netherlands, ordered to forgo two of his favorite sports, skiing and horse jumping, because of a weak vertebra, the result of an old auto accident...