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...Another Johns Hopkins branch, with five students, was started in Rangoon, Burma, last June...
...superstitious Burma, where heavenly portents are eagerly watched for, a visiting 67-man good-will cultural mission from Red China paid a call on the Rangoon Zoo. Anxious to impress the mission with the atmosphere of peaceful coexistence that pervades his particular domain, the zoo keeper thrust his arm into the cage of his gentlest lion. The lion promptly bit the intruding hand, and was driven off only by shots from the security police...
Burma's U Nu made a final round of speeches in Communist China, and headed home to be in Rangoon in time to play host for Tito's state visit to Burma...
...Prime Minister U Nu of Burma, the devout Buddhist head of an overwhelm ingly Buddhist nation (TIME, Aug. 30), laid the cornerstone of a Student Chris tian Foundation building at Rangoon University. U Nu presented his hosts with a check for 5,000 kyats ($1,042), urged Burma's more than 18 million Buddhists and 600,000 Christians to do their "utmost to preserve religious tolerance...
...suffered acute insomnia; he had flown to Red China, against doctor's orders, with laryngitis and a fever. Along the way, Nehru had acted in high-strung fashion: at Calcutta he kicked aside a jobless young refugee who prostrated himself before Nehru ("He is holding my foot"); at Rangoon he wielded his wooden cane at a welcoming crowd which he thought was drawing too near. When the Nehru party finally got to Peking, it was learned that Nehru had ordered his secretary off the plane at the last minute, to make room for his personal physician. Last week, moving...