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Jawaharlal Nehru last week accepted new tokens of concord from Red China: two spotted deer, a couple of long-necked cranes, and 100 fat goldfish swimming in bowls. Nehru thanked Red China's beaming donor. Chargé d'Affaires Shen Chien, but took Shen aside later on to ask about another recent consignment from Peking. How does it happen, asked Nehru, that Indian Communists are now selling Peking-printed maps that show 57,000 square miles of India's Assam, neighboring Burma, and Nehru's own ancestral Kashmir as districts of "People's China...
...judged: 1) rhythmic vitality, 2) anatomical structure, 3) conformity with nature, 4) suitability of coloring, 5) artistic grouping, 6) copying of classical masterpieces. In striving to meet these requirements, even the greatest of Ming painters seldom departed from familiar themes; but they achieved such happy variations as scholarly Shen Chou's pink study of spring (see cut), and they more than made up in refinement what they lacked in fire...
...Communists reacted angrily. Last week Canton's Communist radio flatly announced: "Hong Kong is part of Chinese territory." Boasted Playwright Szema Wen-shen, deported chairman of the so-called Red Study Group: "We shall return soon to eliminate all reactionary elements...
Army's Dick Shen won the individual title yesterday in the IC4A Championships, but Penn State was able to edge the Cadets, 67 to 68, for team honors. Harvard finished 29th out of the 20-odd colleges competing...
...full of warnings to the pampered patriots. Peking's People's Daily chided Labor Hero Wang Chung-hao, a Manchurian, who "became so arrogant and lazy, following his being named a labor hero, that his team subsequently turned in a very miserable result." Equally guilty was Shen Chao-ai, who got so involved with meetings, discussions, and visits from admirers that he stayed away from work for 90 days last year and had to be fined 2.7 piculs (360 lbs.) of cereals for backsliding. Complained the People's Daily: "Some of these heroes become self-centered...