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...Discovery of India. For a few years after his return to India, the rebel in Nehru was submerged in the English gentleman. He settled down in Allahabad, married a suitable Kashmiri Brahman girl (chosen by his father) and practiced law in desultory fashion. But before long, boredom and the rising tide of Indian nationalism swept him into the revolutionary politics of the Indian National Congress Party. And once he met Gandhi, the die was cast. Two men more diverse than Nehru and the frail little Mahatma could hardly be imagined. Devoted to the scientific socialism of the tractor...
...mystery epidemic struck down children in northern India with 118 deaths reported (24 in Delhi. 50 in Lucknow, others in Benares and Allahabad). Tentative diagnosis: encephalitis. An all-out spraying campaign was launched to destroy sand flies and mosquitoes, which are suspected of carrying the virus...
...American Institute of Physics, kept in constant touch with brother Arthur Holly Compton (who won the Nobel Prize and became chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis), brother Wilson Martindale Compton (who served as president of the State College of Washington), and sister Mary (who married the president of Allahabad University in India). Profoundly patriotic, he was a constant commuter to Washington, served the Government as an adviser on everything from guided missiles to U.M.T. Meanwhile, as if all these duties were not enough, he managed to find time for anyone who wanted to drop in for a chat. Actually...
That auspicious time came one day last week. The pilgrims swarmed into the nearby city of Allahabad (pop. 260,000) on 200 special trains, rattle-clatter bicycles, on foot and upon the backs of coolies and stronger relatives. The government had spent $2,000,000 and many months of careful planning on safe roads, pontoon bridges and DDT. They also mustered 40,000 troops, police, Boy Scouts and volunteer workers to insure that no harm should come to the faithful. But when the holy men and the first procession headed back from the confluence, they were confronted by tens...
...suggestion that got nowhere: in Allahabad, the Naga Sadhus, holiest of India's holy men, suggested that Eisenhower, Churchill, Malenkov, Mao Tse-tung and India's Prime Minister Nehru (optional at no extra cost) meet in the nude high up on the Himalayas to bring an end to the cold...