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...enemies of Pakistan." His opposition to Nehru's proposed fact-finding commission was based on the official argument that such a commission would merely "entangle both governments in the barbed wire of controversy." Then, when Nehru suggested that both leaders tour Bengal together, as they had toured the stricken Punjab in 1947, he again refused. Previous experience, said Liaquat Ali, "did not indicate that such a move would have any substantial results...
...northwest shoulder of the desolate, storm-swept island. Most of them landed in trees, disentangled themselves from chute shrouds and branches and spent the first night wrapped in wet nylon or under inflated rubber dinghies taken from their parachute seat packs. Captain Barry, last to leave his stricken ship, came down in a shallow pond and spent the rest of the miserable night on the shore. Corporal Richard J. Schuler passed a wakeful, uneasy night alone listening to a bear prowl about his improvised parachute tent...
This transition from the Yard to the Houses is a rough one. A Student Council subcommittee trying to smooth it has suggested that freshmen should be allowed to sign into upperclass dining halls on certain nights. But some Housemasters frown upon this proposal; they see milling mobs of Union-stricken freshmen choking the already crowded dining halls...
...Faculty had called up Captain Carroll T. Bonney to explain the interpretation and application of the oath at Harvard, and before the afternoon was over, the Faculty had instructed its NROTC head to tell the Navy in Washington that Harvard's teachers think the "informer clause" should be stricken from the certificate. Such an expression carries so much weight that a three month campaign of many groups and individuals toward the removal of the "informer clause" may soon be very successfully concluded...
...radio message from Halfway Valley, 180 miles northwest of Fort St. John, B.C., was brief and urgent. An epidemic of diphtheria had broken out in an Indian village on the Stoney River; 50-odd stricken natives needed help at once. From Whitehorse, Indian Affairs' Department Nurse Amy Wilson flew to Fort St. John; Nurse Aileen Bond started out from Dawson Creek, B.C. Last week the British Columbia Health Department released Nurse Bond's report on their three-week-long fight against the disease...