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Charlie Ufford is defending champion and favorite in the Intercollegiate Singles Squash Tournament which gets underway this morning at West Point...
...home, a State Department economy drive is underway; Under Secretary Don-old Lourie has ordered all missions abroad to cut down 25% on cable dispatches, which now cost $2,500,000 a year...
During the night an operator at Mobile's Radio Station WKRG picked up what he thought was an S O S message, possibly from a hand-cranked "Gibson Girl" transmitter of the type used on life rafts. As a great sea-air search got underway the next morning, one of the 20-odd planes which took part sighted what seemed to be a raft, with six people clinging to it. But they were never seen again. A 20-ft. sea was running, and it seemed doubtful that survivors could cling to a raft for long...
...people looking outside Russia for their homeland. Secondly, the Russians were disappointed at the slenderness of Communist strength in Israel, which remained small despite immigration from Eastern Europe. So the 2,500,000 Jews behind the Iron Curtain have become scapegoats and decoys for the big Communist purges now underway. How many will die or disappear, no one can guess: western eyes can only grub for stray hints in the Soviet press...
...eviction is underway. Thousands of Kikuyus are being bundled into boxcars and shipped to overcrowded reserves, even sitting on car roofs with arms linked so as not to fall off. One transit camp is a barbed-wire enclosure on Nakuru racecourse, where evicted Kukes are huddled together in the horses' stalls. Kenya's jails are already overflowing with an estimated 20,000 Kukes...