Word: afghanistan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Obaidullah Shaywaniah can compare Harvard with something more remote than Simmons College. "I come from Afghanistan, that unknown country," he says, "and for Americans my name is Obai. One thing I like here very much, everybody is so frank and sincere...
...spend another summer among faraway mountains, Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas left New York for India. Last year, nervous Russians noted his wanderings around Iran, denounced him as an imperialist spy. This year, said the Justice, "Russia has already alerted Afghanistan, Pakistan and Tibet of my visit... I am the only self-financed spy in existence, probably...
...Best Muslin. Over the years, the colonel and his cousin have scoured the world for bird lice, visiting Syria, Africa, India, Arctic Russia, Estonia, Afghanistan, Arabia and Arizona. As soon as pack horses or native bearers arrive with the expedition at the hunting grounds, the colonel strolls out with his shotgun. As each bird bites the dust, he wraps it carefully in many folds of "the best butter muslin." When the bird's body begins to cool, the lice desert it for the muslin. Then the colonel and Theresa unwrap the muslin and shelter the displaced lice in labeled...
...first time he had gone to Dash-ti-Margo (Desert of Death) and discovered a dead city, forgotten by the modern world (TIME, Nov. 7, 1949). This time, accompanied by his bride of five days, Anthropologist Fairservis revisited the same mysterious area of southwest Afghanistan. Near the Bolan Pass, the expedition, came across its first big find: 36 sites which yielded pottery of a hitherto unknown type. On the bottom of many of the pieces were mysterious little signs, some 30 different ones, that look as if they might be the beginnings of an alphabet. Some of the sites, Fairservis...
Fairservis' theory is that the Afghanistan region was well-watered and fertile at the dawn of history. Civilization spread from the West along the Arabian Sea, through Afghanistan and Baluchistan into northern India. He suspects that it also spread northward into Central Asia, and may have reached China through Soviet Turkestan...