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Where does a bright boy or girl want to go to college? Something prestigious? A school near a ski-slope? One of those "good, small" places? East? West? A huge, rich state university? Last week the National Merit Scholarship Corp. told what it had learned when it asked 21,000 high school senior boys and 14.000 girls, all in the top 2% of their classes, to name their choices. Results, in order, for boys: Harvard, M.I.T., Stanford, Cal Tech., Yale, University of California at Berkeley, Cornell, Princeton, Columbia, Rice. For girls: Stanford, Radcliffe, Cornell, Wellesley, California at Berkeley, University...
...pact, the Red Chinese have again and again penetrated Indian territory. Red China does not recognize the 1914 McMahon line, which fixed India's Tibetan border in the North-East Frontier Agency, claims that the actual frontier runs 100 miles south of the present line on the south slope of the Himalayas. Two years ago, Red China occupied 12,000 sq. mi. of Indian territory in Kashmir, has laid claim to an additional 39,000 sq. mi. along India's northern frontier. Recently the Chinese Communists established new border outposts at Nyagzu and Dambuguru in Ladakh province...
...turns firm and foggy. He blamed himself for misreading Red China's intentions, admitted that he had "trusted-'trusted' is perhaps not the right word-thought that the Chinese would not function as they did later." Rejecting Red China's claim to the southern slope of the Himalayas, Nehru won cheers by declaring: "The Himalayas are not only a part of our territory; they are a part of our hearts and mind...
...students took two weeks and 700 feet of fixed rope to lift their 800 pounds of food and gear to the first ridge, over a 600-foot 60-degree icy slope. After that task was completed the first snow and wind came, preventing further movement the next day. By the fourth day the storm worsened and the group found its tent ripped badly by the wind. Thereafter they used snow caves on their way--first to 15,500 feet and then 17,000 feet...
Factory chimneys, grain elevators, the steel pylons of power lines rise above the plains. In the foothills of the Urals, Magnitogorsk lies on the slope of a magnetic mountain, which is fed ton by ton into the city's open-hearth and blast furnaces, making it the greatest metallurgical center in the Soviet Union. Nearby Sverdlovsk used to be known as Ekaterinburg, and was chiefly famous as the spot where, in 1918, the Bolsheviks executed Czar Nicholas II and his family. Today its 800,000 people build machine tools, TV sets, railroad cars and ball bearings...