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Friendship's End. As if to dramatize the jurists' measured account, last week a new spate of refugees poured across the border into India. Among the latecomers was one Thondup Lowazang, 27, who until a few weeks ago had been deputy commander of 100 Chinese troops in the Shigatse area. A longtime Communist even before the Chinese marched in, Thondup had been happy to show the Chinese how to handle his own people until he saw the village of Kimrimchogor, once home to 700 families, reduced by bombing and firing squad to 20 individuals because it was suspected...
...grounds as relative as these, there has been and will be a spate of other Hamlets. For Hamlet and Shakespeare's other great characters are so rich in possible meanings because they are fashioned on the essentially human principle of both/and rather than either/or. Hamlet is more than the sum of his paradoxes; he is the paradox of man seen whole. All one knows for certain is that being Hamlet is Hamlet's tragedy-as being himself is everyman...
...annual recurrence of festival fever. This summer U.S. tourists will find more than 50 music festivals to choose from. There are the usual flying squads of big-name soloists, concert-hopping on split-week schedules, and the customary local specialties. The dominant flavor this year is contemporary, with a spate of premieres scheduled. Among the top attractions...
...just when it needs fast action to deal with the new economic and regulatory problems of the jet age. During the first quarter of 1960, U.S. domestic trunk lines lost $24 million, v. a pretax profit of $16 million for 1959's first quarter. Bad weather and a spate of crashes account for some of the gap, but most of it is due to two major problems facing the airlines: fares are too low (at about the level of ten years ago), and competition too great...
...Berlin-born Glamour Girl Marlene Dietrich, 55. was aware that her'reception might be chilly. Reason: during and after World War II, Grandma Marlene damned Hitler and his works so roundly that many Germans still believe she is downright anti-German. Marlene's impending return created a spate of mumbling in the West German press. She shrugged it off: "The only thing I'm really afraid of is eggs. I have a swans-down coat, and if an egg ever hits it, I don't know what I'll do. You couldn't clean...