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Tormented Faces. Richard Nixon gave Mrs. Gandhi a gracious welcome on the South Lawn of the White House. It was a glorious autumn day in Washington, with the flags snapping in the wind and monuments gleaming in the sunshine. Thirteen silver trumpets sounded a fanfare from the White House portico. Then Mrs. Gandhi, regal in a brown sari and cashmere cape, reviewed the troops with the President...
...Thirteen hundred and fifty students are participating in the Tuition Postponement Program through which nearly one-fourth of the University is receiving $1,000,000 in loans...
...Thirteen years have passed since Alan Sillitoe burst forth, in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, as one of the angriest of Britain's Angry Young Men. If he is still angry, it may be because of his relative lack of progress in more man a decade of hard work. In all he has produced six novels, three collections of short stories, three volumes of poetry, a travelogue on Russia, a play and a children's tale, but the reviews have generally been halfhearted...
Othman's Shirt. To history-minded Arabs, the shirt-waving guerrillas recalled a major battle in Islamic history. Thirteen centuries ago, a Damascus governor named Mu'awiya, vowing to avenge the murder of the Caliph Othman, carried Othman's bloody shirt as a battle flag. Actually, Mu'awiya hoped to make himself Caliph. Ever since, Arabs have described self-aggrandizement in the guise of vengeance as "waving the shirt of Othman." As Hussein's neighbors leaped to the guerrillas' defense last week with words-but little else-that is what they seemed...
...track down criminals belonging to something called the Mafia. Plans for a $3.5 million hospital were announced; recently the league set up a children's summer camp. A year after the first pickets marched in front of FBI headquarters, Colombo was honored as league man-of-the-year. Thirteen hundred people came to the dinner marking his "undying devotion to the Italian-American people and all humanitarian causes...