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Misbehaving People. So far, the fighting has shown that the Indians need nearly everything, except courage. Chinese burp guns fire 20 times faster than Indian rifles. The Indian 25-pounder is a good artillery piece, but is almost immobile in the mountains and cannot match the Chinese pack artillery, recoilless guns and bazookas. Each Chinese battalion has a special company of porters whose job it is to make sure the fighting men have ample ammunition and food. The Indians must rely on units from their unwieldy Army Service Corps, who were never trained to operate at heights...
...convinced that Nixon cannot make a statement admitting a fault or defeat without a pack of excuses. We Californians don't want a crybaby in public office...
...race at the start, then folded. Kelso and Carry Back staged a killing duel for the lead until Carry Back ran out of gas. and the victory chant "Kelso! Kelso!" started through the stands. But it was not the Americans' day. Biding his time back in the pack, Saint-Martin deftly drove Match II past the winded field, coming through on the rail, gaining on Kelso with every long stride. "I saw him coming," said Kelso's jockey Ismael Valenzuela, "but I just couldn't do anything about it." At the finish, Match...
Foreign aid is in trouble again. Mr. Passman made heavier cuts than usual in Congressional allocations, and made them stick; Mr. Bowles, one of the program's fondest defenders, accused it of failing to require sufficiently high standards of planning; and now the agency director is about to pack his briefcase and return to New York, where no Congressman will ever come to shatter his sleep...
...PORTABLE PIANO. An electronic portable piano built into a case about the size of a two-suiter has been put on the market by the Wurlitzer Co., De Kalb, Ill. Like the Micro-TV, it operates on house current or a battery pack. With a 64-note keyboard, the all-transistor piano can be played via built-in loudspeaker or earphones (for silent practicing), has controls to vary the tone from Hawaiian guitar to vibraphone to glockenspiel. With case, bench, battery pack and earphones, approximate price...