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...trouble; what is going on in Tibet, said Nehru, is "a clash of wills, not arms." But the fact of actual battle sent a shudder of passion through the subcontinent. Indian newspapers called for action, and the Indian Express asked angrily: "If New Delhi could rightly condemn the Anglo-French aggression on Egypt, thereby castigating a fellow member of the Commonwealth, what prevents it from raising its voice in protest at Peking's effort to dragoon Tibetans into submission...
...R.O.T.C. battalion, won four out of 20 prizes in the Atlantic's collegiate short-story writing contest, played a top-chop game of Rugby, and kayoed an opponent in a Golden Gloves elimination fight before getting iced himself. At Oxford, Kris immersed himself in the dark waters of Anglo-Saxon, spent a few ergs of his seemingly inexhaustible reserve of energy playing Rugger for Merton, winning his blue at boxing (although a Cambridge tiger defeated him recently), and writing the first 50 pages of a novel-"a sort of complicated thing, in which I look at the same episode...
Died. Sir Sayed Abdel Rahman el Mahdi, 73, Sudanese religious and political leader, posthumous son of Mohammed ("Mad Mahdi") Ahmed, whose dervishes took Khartoum from Anglo-Egyptian forces in 1885; in Khartoum...
...economic phase of the talks covered a joint desire to coordinate Anglo-American trade policies to meet Russia's mounting trade and aid drive around the world...
Outwardly, the loggers' strike is a jurisdictional struggle between the I.W.A. and the newly formed Newfoundland Brotherhood of Woodworkers; more profoundly, the island's economy is at issue. Two big newsprint producers, Anglo-Newfoundland Development Co. Ltd. and Bowater's Pulp & Paper Mills Ltd., are faced with the rising cost of cutting logs in Newfoundland's skimpy forests. Newfoundland Premier Joseph Roberts Smallwood, fearful that further cost increases might endanger the companies' operations, moved in to settle the dispute at Grand Falls. Liberal Smallwood, once a union organizer, rammed a bill through the provincial legislature...