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This last weekend must have been an invigorating one for that patient group of diplomats which meets at Lake Success. At last they have seen two nations come before the United Nations with a seemingly insoluble problem, with diametrically opposed viewpoints, and consent to arbitrate their differences. A speech by the Indian delegate charging Moslem aggression, a five and a half hour talkathen by the Pakistan Foreign Minister Mohammaz Zafrullah Khan indicting India for "genocide," a quick vote and the discussion moved into the offices of M. van Langenhowe, Chairman of the Security Council...
Without an armed force, the United Nations can do little to implement its own decisions, unless the Big Five should bridge the East-West gap. The India-Pakistan willingness to arbitrate their case points a way out of the impasse at Lake Success--if all nations want lasting peace...
Musically the most interesting was Horowitz's Chopin. By choosing the Nocturnes in E Minor and F Sharp Major and the Ballade in G Minor, he faced the ticklish problem of making three rather schmalzy examples of Chopin appear credible. And his success was immense. In the Nocturnes, especially, the gently charm with which he played was a welcome change both from the rather brittle tone he usually uses and from the gooey-tear-stained manner in which Chopin's Nocturnes are too often played...
...success of voluntary medical prepayment plans, Larsen asserted, is an adequate answer to advocates of compulsory Government health insurance measures like the Wagner-Murray-Dingell bill. He also tossed a few barbed statistics at the Federal Government: only 300,000 of the 2,000,000 federal employees now participate in Blue Cross plans "because of the difficulties of handling subscription payments without the cooperation of the employer. ... In this important instance the much-maligned American businessman is way ahead of a federal Administration which has preached medical protection for the low-income wage-earner for the past 15 years...
Died. Richard Allen Knight, 49, café socialite, once brilliant lawyer (disbarred); in Manhattan. Great-headed Texan Knight, whose early success (1928 earnings: $80,000) began boring him into his cups, embarked on a series of well-publicized didos (most famed: a headstand at the 1939 opening of the Metropolitan Opera...