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LADAKH (pop. 80,000), Kashmir's northeast bulge, is the sorest of all. A high, arid plateau with a jungle of peaks rising out of it, Ladakh is claimed by both India and Pakistan in their acrid dispute over the control of Kashmir. Indian defence forces must thus be on the lookout for both the Chinese and the Pakistanis. Polyandry is the most widespread feature of Ladakh society; when a woman marries a man, she often marries his younger brothers also. When the eldest brother dies, the widow can divorce the younger husbands by tying her finger...
Sensation of the convention was a speech by a Southern Baptist. Dr. Blake Smith, pastor of the University Baptist Church of Austin, Texas, whose topic was the sorest subject in Northern Baptism -the "invasion" by Southern Baptists (membership: 8,956,756) of what the American Baptists (membership: 1,536,276) regard as their territory. The convention press was kept busy running off 3,000 copies of his speech, which sold at 10? each...
Capitol Hill the year's sorest political question, Ike's budget, was being fought out on partisan lines. Moreover, up to week's end, the Vice President and Secretary of State both were far away, creating -until Dulles' return from Australia on Sunday-a top-echelon vacuum in the capital. But there was general agreement, even in Congress, that the President's trip was proper to rid himself of a cantankerous head cold...
...document was designed to take the sting out of the sorest point of friction between the two countries. The issue has been synthetically whooped up by Filipino nationalists and complicated by maladroit handling by U.S. authorities in the Philippines and in Washington. The Philippines Act of Independence of 1934 gave the U.S. the right to maintain bases there after the islands became independent. In 1947, a year after actual independence was granted, 23 such areas were defined, only three of them major: Clark Air Field, 50 miles north of Manila; the Navy's Subic Bay installations on the northwest...
...tidings were all the gladder because oil is one of Brazil's sorest problems. The wells in Bahia produce only 1,500,000 barrels a year, less than 3% of Brazil's consumption. Oil imports, which must be paid for in dollars, gobble up much of the dollar exchange Brazil earns from its coffee exports. But instead of welcoming foreign oil capital, Brazil has barred it with nationalistic laws. The government oil monopoly, Petrobras, can legally hire the services of foreign experts and drilling companies, but it cannot grant concessions or sell shares to foreigners. Because of this...