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Despite the list of probable Chinese demands, there is no longer any real hope -even among the British, who have clung to it longest-that a serious rift is developing between Peking and Moscow...
...last time the Russians and Chinese had got together, including the Number Ones of both countries, Stalin and Mao, their talk had lasted an unexpected two months. The experts took this delay to mean that there was some rift between the two. The actual result of their conferring was not felt until 4½ months later. Then the Korean war began...
...both parties, saying that because of a patronizing attitude, "Princeton is out to get Harvard . . . but they are too much a part of the best traditions of American education to allow themselves to linger in what is, at best, petty feudalism." But it was too late to damage the rift. On November 1, Princeton announced that it had cut all athletic relations with Harvard...
Last January, Magsaysay for the first time became aware of his high-living security agent, and promptly asked for his resignation. Army General Colixto Duque just as promptly reinstated Pedro. The Defense Secretary called the general on the carpet. Words flew hot and fast. "Anybody who can cause a rift between the general and me," said Magsaysay at last, "is a very dangerous person." And with that, he fired Pedro out of hand...
...months Winston Churchill's Tories smiled in smug satisfaction at the division in Labor's ranks, and sometimes slyly tried to widen the breach. Last week the Laborites were gazing hopefully at a small rift in the ranks of the Conservatives. It was led by a group of young Tory backbenchers...