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...Harvard students are never at a loss. If they don't know something, they'll take a stab at it, drawing upon all their plentiful resources of study and experience...
...China is plainly working to put India into the jaws of a giant Himalayan nutcracker. Recently China concluded a road-building treaty with Nepal, is offering economic aid to the Himalayan kingdoms of Sikkim and Bhutan. The significance of the Chinese pincers movement finally occurred even to Menon. "A stab in the back," he com plained last month. "When did you realize this?" gibed Election Rival J. B. Kripalani in Parliament. "The day before yesterday?" But Menon still urged caution against "adventurism," said that the Chinese Communists should withdraw from Indian territory "in the interests of peace and socialism...
...Kenya's black nationalist movement, moon-faced Tom Mboya, 31, has taken two wives, both of them in the simple tribal custom that permits any marriage to be dissolved whenever the partners decide to separate. Neither union worked, but last week he announced that he would take another stab at matrimony. This time the marriage would take place on a more permanent basis-in the Roman Catholic Church, to which Mboya has belonged ever since his childhood days in Catholic mission schools...
...insisted that the Katangese at least make a stab at settling their differences with Adoula. The threatened alternative: a new military crackdown by the U.N.'s Swedish, Irish, Indian and Ethiopian troops, now holding Elisabethville and other towns in a firm grip. An even more humiliating prospect for Tshombe lay in the U.N.'s announcement that a thousand troops from Adoula's central Congolese army soon could don blue helmets and join the U.N. force as "guards" in Katanga. Using these undisciplined, ill-trained troops was a considerable risk, but the U.N. decided on the move...
Recalling that Menon had described the latest border violations as a "stab in the back," Mehta demanded: "When did you realize this? Did you realize it only the day before yesterday? If you realized it earlier, why didn't you make it known to the country?" Socialist Acharya Kripalani joined the broadside, charged that India's border forces were under "absolute orders" from Menon not to attempt to stop any Red Chinese border incursions...