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...Winds. Last week Jawaharlal Nehru observed his 64th birthday, rising as usual at 5 a.m. for an hour's yoga exercises, including standing on his head. Then he went to the National Stadium, where 50,000 schoolchildren shouted birthday greetings to Chacha (Uncle) Nehru. He gave no indication that he felt the chill winds from the north. Yet if he did not recognize them, or chose not to speak of them, there were some Indians...
Hundreds of thousands of second-grade schoolchildren, averaging seven years old, will give the answer next year to the most urgent and immediate question confronting medical scientists: Can the vaccine developed by the University of Pittsburgh's Dr. Jonas E. Salk (TIME, Feb. 9) halt the ravages of polio...
...anniversary. Five ex-Presidents of Mexico sent messages of congratulation. President Ruiz Cortines embraced the troubador, 53 this week, and said: "Work for Mexico, Agustin." Lara went from Mexico City to Veracruz and then on to Córdoba, traveling along whole blocks of flower-covered streets lined with schoolchildren while factory whistles blew and bells tolled. Last week, overflowing with Mexico's adulation, he pursued his lovelorn triumphal path to Havana...
...chief part of her indictment of Freud that he actually believed that his ideas were right, that he sought to make them prevail, that he did not gracefully compound his differences with the men who modified his theories. Our culture would seem to have changed since the days when schoolchildren were taught that for Columbus to say, 'Sail on! Sail on!' was brave and fine, not ill-natured and undemocratic...
...liberal excerpts from Russian broadcasts on the Soviet superbomb, it is not all somber stuff. He points out that Radio Moscow, for reasons of its own, goes in for such novelties as the American folk song All God's Chillun Got Wings, sung in phonetic English by Russian schoolchildren ("They are just trying to be folksy," he believes...