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Almost anything can set the students off. In Aligarh five years ago, they killed a teacher who refused to promote those who had failed their exams. In 1953 Allahabad students raided the railway station, sabotaged trains, fired public buildings. Last year, when eight students were dismissed after another riot, the rest of the student body caused so much trouble that the university closed for a month. In the state of Bihar students launched a four-day reign of terror because the State Transport Authority refused to grant them special bus fares. They hurled bricks at police, raided a bank, burned...
...Suez Canal, which channels 1,200,000 bbls. daily to Europe from Persian Gulf fields, has been completely closed. The hulks of at least 15 vessels (including the dredges and some of the biggest salvage ships), most of them scuttled by the Egyptians, clog the waterway. The El Firdan railway bridge also has collapsed into the canal. Most optimistic estimate for clearing the canal: more than a month. Says one shipping expert: "It all depends on who is going to do the unplugging. If it's a crash program under the Americans, it might take six weeks...
...loans, to Mexico for railway refurbishing and to Uruguay for electric-power development, were announced last week by the Export-Import Bank of Washington and the World Bank...
...prima donna was larger than life, and a law only to her own towering talent. One composer did not dream of objecting when Maria Malibran (1808-36) regally replaced one whole act he had written with music by another composer. Adelina Patti (1843-1919) traveled in a deluxe private railway car of her own, flanked by husband, dogs, birds and servants. Her fees were stupendous, and one agent protested that she was asking more per month than the President of the U.S. got per year. "Well, then," said Patti stonily, "let him sing...
...Sylphides. In Winnipeg, after he quit as ballet master of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet because a danseuse was given too much authority, Nenad Lhotka got a job in the city's railway sheds, observed that lifting freight is "nothing compared to some of those ballerinas...