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Birch was eventually transferred to the Office of Strategic Services and was assigned late in the war to a tiny, scorpion-infested base at Sian in North China. Baptist Birch is remembered as a loner with a somewhat overbearing manner. In his diary, Major Gustav Krause, commanding officer of the base, gravely noted: "Birch is a good officer, but I'm afraid is too brash and may run into trouble...
...ethnic classification. One bewildered applicant answered race with "skiing and bobsledding." A French student came closer by stating that he belonged to the Latin race. The consular aide put him straight, telling him that he was a Caucasian. "I said I'd never heard of the Cauca sian race," reports the student, "but they told me that was beside the point. I asked what ethnic classification meant. They said, 'Well, you should know your own ethnic class.' I said I'd never really given it much thought. The man said, 'You're European, Jack...
...Annals of Internal Medicine, Dr. Raab accuses U.S. heart researchers of having neglected the relationships be tween emotional states, biochemical processes and heart disease. Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (1849-1936), patron saint of Rus sian medicine, was one of the early work ers in this field, says Dr. Raab, and the U.S.S.R. is now putting his theories into vigorous practice...
...propaganda line on Laos had been curiously restrained-presumably because Chairman Mao Tse-tung and all the top leaders have been away from Peking, hashing over their domestic difficulties at a secret conclave in the provinces. (Best guess as to their meeting place: the northwestern Chinese city of Sian, which fortnight ago received an otherwise inexplicable visit from North Viet Nam's goat-bearded Ho Chi Minh.) Last week, as if to make up for lost time, Red China's Foreign Ministry burst out with implied threats reminiscent of those that preceded Mao's intervention...
What appears to have occurred in Hungary, Nehru explained to a Congress Party meeting in Calcutta, is an internal affair, civil conflicts on a rather large scale. "Much of the trouble occurred after Rus sian troops were withdrawn ... It was at this stage-something that is not quite clear-that the government almost ceased to function. The government split up, and one faction-maybe the bigger faction-called itself the government, and pushed the smaller faction and the Premier out. The new government invited the Soviet forces to come back and quell the disturbances. I am giving the facts without...