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AFTER the U.S. airlift saved West Berlin a decade ago, a monument was erected to the men who lost their lives taking supplies to the beleaguered city. Last week, as West Berliners gathered at that monument to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the airlift's success, the man who led them was this week's cover subject, Mayor Willy Brandt, who was little known to the world ten years...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences yesterday voted by a clear-cut majority to allow a limited number of freshmen to participate in "experiments designed to intensify the intellectual experience of the freshman year." These members of the Class of 1963--probably numbering up to one-tenth of the Class--will receive course credit for their work...
...number of forces will have to be overcome before the old enmities are resolved, however. Each country is suspicious of the other's use of American aid, claiming that when the U.S. strengthens one nation it endangers the other. On April tenth, Pakistani-owned Sabre jets downed an Indian reconaissance plane, an incident which did much to arouse Indian ill-will. Disputes over division of the Indus Basin and control of Kashmir have yet to be settled and there still exists distrust among Indian politicians of the military dictatorship of Ayub Khan's government, its absence of parties, elections...
Dining at Maxim's in Paris on her tenth wedding anniversary, high-strung Operatic Soprano Maria Callas, 35, made a pronouncement between helpings of selle d'agneau à la Callas. Manhattan-born Singer Callas attributed most of her professional success to the offstage support of her Milan tycoon husband, Giovanni Battista Meneghini, 64: "When I met him I was the most ridiculous singer of Italy, and he, a wealthy industrialist who owned 20 building-material plants, said, 'You have the most beautiful voice in the world,' and-thanks to his tenacity, his persuasion and his constant...
...likely to become Red China's Algeria, a festering war to the knife that can be neither won nor lost. The Communist garrisons should be able to hold the cities and the main roads. They can even find a handful of Tibetan collaborators, like their tame puppet, the tenth Panchen Lama, a wan young man of 22 who is unable to control the monks of his own lamaseries. But the Red troops, estimated at 60,000-80,000, must be supplied from a base 70 miles distant, over a single, hazardous road that can be easily cut by Khamba...