Word: ain
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Wedged between Tibet and India, Sikkim usually has been tributary to one or another of its neighbors. When India won its independence from Brit ain in 1947, so did Sikkim. But to the late Maharajah, freedom brought more problems than profit. One day in 1949, several thousand peasants swarmed around the blue and white royal palace (actually a large bungalow) demanding an elected national council and tax reforms. Tashi submitted to the experi ment in democracy for 29 days and then, feeling unable to cope with what was called "threatened disorder," asked India's Nehru for help. Nehru sent...
...enough to keep the figure of an undergraduate, he spends his summers in Israel, taking to the field as soon as the heat has burned off all vegetation to reveal telltale potsherds. Sometimes he gets shot at, but he seems to enjoy such trouble. Last summer he briefly visited Ain-Mugharah (Spring of the Caves). "It's smack on the Sinai border," he says, "and it's a little dangerous. A cliff overhangs the spring; anyone can shoot down." There are many ancient sites there from the time of Abraham and the Judean Kings, but "no one goes...
Next summer he will be back at Ain-Mugharah again. "There is something there," he says, "not just things to find, but the threads of history to tie up. That is the great reward of my kind of exploring." Danger there may be, but to the scientist it is no more than a calculated risk. "What the explorer is after," says Explorer Glueck modestly, "is more important than his life...
...answer to Kathleen DeVoto's letter [Nov. 1] asking why can't women play football: they ain't built right, thank God! And if they did play, I can just see all of those penalties for illegal use of hands and offensive and defensive holding...
...Generalissimo is that he doesn't do any generalissimoing." And once after a tough session with Soviet delegates at the U.N., he snapped, "They remind me of a difficult fellow I knew in Texas. He once told me, I'm going home and if my wife ain't got supper ready, I'll beat her up. And if she has got supper ready, I ain't gonna...