Senator James Eastland, chairman of the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, had a hunch that the tip, if there was one, was passed to the Chinese by Burgess and Maclean - the British diplomats who vanished behind the iron curtain.

Burgess in 1950 was the British embassy's second secretary in Washington, while Maclean held down the American desk at the British Foreign Office in London.

The brother of the Dalai Lama arrived in New York seeking American citizenship.

Denpa Aabache Tagster, 32, also a Buddhist leader, entered the United States with a visa granted under the Refugee Relief Act.

The Church World Service, an affiliate of the National Council of Churches of Christ in America, acted as sponsor.

He had fled from Tibet to India in 1950.

He was met at Idlewild Airport by three Buddhists, who gave him the traditional white silk shawl.

James Dean, the young American film actor and heartthrob, was killed in a motoring accident at Paso Robles, California.

The 24-year-old star of East of Eden was a road racing enthusiast. He was dead on arrival at hospital.

Members of the Hong Kong (Argyle Street) Prisoners of War Association gathered for their second annual reunion dinner in the Officers Mess of the RHKDF.

Of the 650 PoWs interned at the camp for officers and their batmen, only 36 were still in Hong Kong and only 21 attended the reunion.

Greetings were exchanged with the London branch of the association, which was meeting on the same night.

Camp songs were sung and the highlight was a chance to look over 'superbly illustrated' camp magazines - collected and preserved by J.C.M. Grenham (prisoner 5692). They were edited in camp by Arthur Barber, then a publisher in London, who was planning a 'reprint' of the single copy editions of the magazines.

The Governor and his wife, Sir Alexander and Lady Grantham, flew to Peking on a private week-long visit to China. The couple met in Peking years earlier and spent their honeymoon there. Sir Alexander had expressed a wish to return. The Chinese authorities dubbed him 'an outstanding tourist'.

British troops in the New Territories claimed to have seen two mysterious lights moving in the sky about 40,000 feet above the colony.

The soldiers, based at Sek Kong, said that even with binoculars, they were unable to identify the objects.

They reported the lights as appearing to be moving in a southeasterly direction.

Did you know that the mooncakes and lanterns that the Chinese use to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival were deadly serious more than 600 years ago?

They were used to synchronise a rebellion that resulted in the overthrow of the Mongol Yuan Dynasty.

On the 15th day of the eighth lunar month in 1368, Chinese patriots distributed mooncakes to every household in China where Mongol soldiers were billeted.

The cakes contained messages.

At the time stipulated in the message, each house lit a lantern and all over the country Mongol soldiers were slaughtered. This gave rise to the native Ming Dynasty.

Since then Chinese families have been celebrating the Moon Festival, but in the hundreds of years since, much of the original significance has been dimmed and today it is a social affair - an occasion for the reunion of families and friends.