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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Abolition was also a triumph for Untouchable Dr. Ambedkar. Years ago, Columbia-educated Ambedkar, appointed to an official post by the Gaekwar of Baroda, was overwhelmed by humiliation and forced to resign. "Papers had to be flung to me," he once said of this experience, "and the carpet had to be rolled back lest higher castes stood on the same material...
Last week in New Delhi's Bhangi colony, where municipal sweepers are lodged and where Mahatma Gandhi once lived, one turbaned Untouchable said: "Thirty years ago, if I entered a shop, I had to stand apart from other customers; if I touched a piece of cloth, I had to buy it. Now I can go anywhere and my children go to school, but I am still a sweeper, and my pay of 65 rupees a month does not buy me what 20 used to." The sweeper had not even heard of the Constituent Assembly, which was sitting only three...
...what the front in northern Greece was like. Now he had better things to do. He had inherited Greece's largest department store and had settled down in a luxurious apartment with his attractive wife and a young daughter. So, when he was called up a few months ago, he devised a plan. He located a former employee, now destitute and suffering from tuberculosis, supplied him witha forged identity card and paid him $1,500 to appear as Michael Chryssicopoulos before an army medical board. The ex-employee was promptly rejected as unfit...
...Japanese discovered who he was by stumbling on to a recording of a Mozart duo he had made years ago with his good friend, Violist-Composer Paul Hindemith. When the Japanese demanded that he play it for them, he begged off: "The other man is not here." When he told them that Hindemith was in New York, the Japanese replied: "Ah, we will get him then when we capture New York...
...limestone cave at Swartkrans, near Johannesburg, the teeth and jaw are definitely human, rather than apelike. Their original owner (who will now be called "Swartkrans Man") must have looked something like the huge primates, Meganthropus and Gigantopithecus, whose teeth were found in Java and China some years ago...