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...year-old Dalai Lama in Peking last week. The truth was, however, that Nehru looked bad. For several weeks he had suffered acute insomnia; he had flown to Red China, against doctor's orders, with laryngitis and a fever. Along the way, Nehru had acted in high-strung fashion: at Calcutta he kicked aside a jobless young refugee who prostrated himself before Nehru ("He is holding my foot"); at Rangoon he wielded his wooden cane at a welcoming crowd which he thought was drawing too near. When the Nehru party finally got to Peking, it was learned that Nehru...
Says Pastor Peale: "God and the doctor, that's what I give them. Anxiety is the great American disease. Take businessmen. They are a wonderful group of people, but they are so high-strung and tense. I watched a friend being carried out after a heart attack, and he said, 'Use me as a warning.' People have lost the secret of inner peace...
...Dear Comrade," wrote Jawaharlal Nehru to each member of his Cabinet. "On the eve of my visit to China, I venture to write to you to dispel doubts and rumors." In 1,300 loosely strung words, the leader of the world's second most populous nation proclaimed that he would not run for re-election as Congress Party president when his term expires next January and would not "function as Prime Minister for at least some time." Instead, said handsomely aging (64) Nehru, he wanted time to read and think while others showed how they could run India...
Geologists find coral atolls as fascinating as detective stories. The clues lie strung through the earth's warm seas in festoons of ringlike islands, like Wake Island in the Pacific (see cut). And for more than a century the geologists have been debating what the clues really mean. The most familiar theory is that atolls started as coral reefs fringing a small island. When the island sank (or the sea rose), the ring of coral kept growing upward, eventually forming an atoll with a lagoon where the island used...
...stations"' on the path of the solar eclipse will be ten well-equipped observatories strung out from Canada to Iran (see map). The biggest gap will be the U.S.S.R., where the Russians presumably have stations of their own. As the shadow sweeps past, each observatory will determine the instant of totality, i.e., the time when the moon is centered in front of the sun. This can be done by 1) taking high-speed motion pictures of the eclipse, 2) watching photoelectrically for the moment when the light from the sun is weakest, 3) photographing the sun's spectrum...