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...stir over La Russell's comment: No observer of life will be disturbed, for it is a simple truism to even half-deaf observers that most girls who are trying to be "sharp" are notably similarly wearisome in limiting expression to a repetition of current pat phrases ... It would have been thoroughly in keeping if Jane had prefaced her predication with "Let's face it." It's surprising that a modern girl would omit that devastating, penetrating philosophy. Also, a modern girl could have well been expected to comment: "He's a Smart Cookie...
Since India gained freedom in 1947, Nehru has repeatedly demanded an end to all colonial enclaves in the subcontinent. When his huffing, puffing and pleading did not blow the colonial walls down, armed Indian nationalists (often Communist-led) began to stir up revolts in the enclaves, and Nehru gave their activity the kind of silence that implies approval. France let three of its tiny colonies go (Chandernagor, Mahe and Yanaon), and last week the French Foreign Office let it be known that the last two, Pondicherry and Karikal, would be ceded to India within "the next few weeks." These small...
...Alamos when the first atomic bomb was exploded; she and her mother spent happy weeks together in the rough outdoors of Dr. Robert Oppenheimer's Perro Caliente ranch, although Oppenheimer cabled last week that he did not know them well. By her own account, "something started to stir" in Joan Hinton when the first A-bombs were dropped. "Hiroshima," she scribbled in a frenzied letter, "150,000 lives. One, two, three, four . . . one hundred and fifty thousand . . . Were we to blame?" Most atomic scientists, far closer to the bomb than Joan Hinton, have struggled with this sense of guilt...
...conferees were stunned. Viet Nam's Foreign Minister Tran Van Do had announced from time to time that he would never accept partition. But Cambodia had scarcely been heard from. Its delegation had arrived late, made little stir, and had figured little in negotiations, since it had not even been invaded by the Viet Minh as had Laos...
...aside 242 tax-exempt channels for education, and 195 of them are still going abegging. Is educational TV worth the long wait, or should the unused channels be thrown open to commercial use? By last week Lee's public statements had created enough of a stir to set educators to examining their TV records...