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Nehru even encouraged negotiations between the Tibetans and the Red masters of China. Last April a seven-man delegation, headed by Finance Minister Tsepon Shakabpa, made the arduous trip to New Delhi from Lhasa, the remote, lamasery-studded capital of Tibet. They waited five months for the arrival of General Yuan Chung-hsien, the new Chinese Communist Ambassador to India. When he arrived, the Red envoy suggested the Tibetans go on to Peking. It was so arranged. The delegation, like Nehru, had its dreams; Tibetan Minister Shakabpa scornfully brushed off talk of an impending attack on his country...
Control of BBC is vested in a seven-man board of governors appointed by the King (actually by the Prime Minister). Even under a Labor government, the board has an old school tie atmosphere that filters down through all echelons. BBCmen work hard and enthusiastically for very little money, and the revenue for their modest salaries comes almost entirely from the listening public. Each Briton pays ?1 a year for his radio license fee or ?2 for his TV set. Additional income pours in from BBC's impressive list of publications, which accept advertising even though BBC does...
...fairly easily. The line-backers moved up quickly to keep the Indians from breaking the game wide open, but this made Holy Cross quite vulnerable to passes. The fact that the backers-up played close to the line, and indeed one of them would move in to form a seven-man line, meant that the defensive halfbacks would frequently reach a Dartmouth receiver just as he caught the ball on a button-hook pass. The defense was sucked completely out of position on Dartmouth's second touchdown; a 12-year-old could have caught Clayton's pass and scored...
...newest task Johnson had set himself a commendable set of rules: don't spend time looking for headlines, try to avoid politics, avoid second-guessing war strategy, be constructive and impartial. As a starter, the seven-man Johnson subcommittee planned to survey Alaskan defenses, examine weapons and manpower needs and investigate foreign monopolies of strategic U.S. defense materials...
...man in the Communist world now. Back of him is a seven-man Politburo, which stays in the shadows. I don't know who belongs to it. Ho has been in China this year, in February, I think; he is not asking Mao for men, but for arms. He has plenty of men. All males between 18 and 45 have been conscripted, but he has arms for a few only...