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...with the airlift. All these occasions were milestones in the persistence of free men to remain free. But these tests came before both sides had large nuclear arsenals, and for the most part did not involve a direct, point-blank confrontation between Washington and Moscow. Now, in an ultimate showdown, Russia had given...
...Chinese friends should ever become troublesome, Moscow would keep them in line. The utter bankruptcy of this policy was demonstrated last week when ten Indian Air Force pilots returned emptyhanded from Russia, where they had been sent to take delivery on long-promised MIG-21 jet fighters. In the showdown, Russia stayed loyal to its alliance with Red China, leaving India to shift for itself...
...after the turn of the year its Los Angeles hybrid will get a new editor to replace Herbert H. Krauch, 66, a Hearst veteran of 50 years. Krauch's replacement will be John Denson, 59, who recently quit as editor of the New York Herald Tribune after a showdown argument over editorial authority...
Leverett, 6-0, is idle until its November 14 showdown with the Elephants, but faces the problem of replacing its starting quarterback, Tim Casgar. Casgar was knocked out of the Dunster game last week with a head injury, and has been ruled unfit for the rest of the season. Despite this loss, the Bunnies had an easy time with Kirkland Thursday, as they scored a convincing...
...vulpine Valerian Zorin and Cuba's bouncy Mario Garcia-Inchaustegui tried, with ridicule and invective, to outscore U.S. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson. That night, 45 Afro-Asian neutralists huddled in a conference room below the Assembly Hall to come up with a resolution that might avert a showdown between the two nuclear giants. Someone forgot to turn off a public-address system, and their secret deliberations blared throughout the U.N. One gloomy listener said the neutrals sounded in private exactly as they do in public-breathless and inchoate. The conference did result in a plea to Acting Secretary-General...