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...strength of Pakistan's army increases with U.S. aid . . . this will disturb without fail the entire balance of power in this region." Nehru told some 500,000 in Calcutta that he would oppose Communism if it disturbed the peace, but that the U.S.-Pakistan reports are "uppermost in the mind of every thinking Indian." Nehru fired off another bristling note to Pakistan, the Times of India reported, "so that India's case will not go by default, and her policy can also be molded in such a way as to meet the new circumstances...
Bach: Sonatas and Partitas for Unaccompanied Violin (Jascha Heifetz; Victor, 3 LPs). Master Fiddler Heifetz brings some of the repertory's toughest music to life with his superb confidence and technique. There are a few passages where technique seems uppermost in his mind, but for the most part the slow movements have appealing warmth and the fast ones take off in whirlwinds of color...
Through the week the tedious negotiations in Korea (see above) were uppermost in the President's mind. Just before he left Washington for a weekend with 120 top-ranking officers and defense officials at the big Marine base at Quantico, Va., the President had another conference on Korea. The meeting delayed the departure from the White House, and although the motorcade roared down to Quantico at 70 m.p.h., the President was late, and the official welcoming party was confused and missed his arrival. When he finally caught up with the President, Quantico Commandant Lieut. General Clifton B. Gates...
...Whip Shot. Cardano knew all about loaded dice and such tricks as the whip shot: "The die is thrown straight with such an impetus and such a number of points exposed above that it is probable that the point which we wish will come uppermost." He knew about soaping a card to make it recognizable to the touch, listed several ways of marking cards and told how nimble-footed partners could signal each other on a loose floor board...
...centuries past, the fear of pirates was always uppermost in the thoughts of Dutch merchant skippers sailing their heavy-laden East Indiamen along the coasts of Africa. No such grim foreboding clutched the heart of Johannes Van Delft, master of the tiny (265 tons) Dutch coaster Combinatie, as he put out of Tangier Harbor into the Strait of Gibraltar, bound for Malta, one day last month, laden with $100,000 worth of U.S. cigarettes. It was the 20th century; the sky was blue overhead; ten kegs of good Holland beer were stowed below, to complement the vessel's small...