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...spent ten long years being hopelessly in love with the proud Duchess of Avalon. When she finally capitulated and came to his room, Francis, "maladroit as ever," took the occasion to die. Then there was Thomas Vanbrugh (born 1861), a captain in Prince Albert's Regiment of Assam Light Infantry in India, who gallantly disgraced himself during a native uprising when he ordered a retreat solely to save the local British Resident's wife, a dauntless lady with a superior figure. Finally, there was Edward Vanbrugh (born 1891), the narrator's own father, who returned after long...
Ever since the ancients labeled them kin to Hanuman. demigod king of the monkeys, India's monkeys have been prolific, pampered pests. But starting in 1951, when scientists discovered that rhesus monkey kidneys were ideal for making polio vaccines, hordes of the primates were lured from the Assam jungles to worthy ends in the laboratories of the world. Shipping 150,000 small brown monkeys annually to 30 countries (80% to the U.S.), India earned $3,000,000 a year in foreign exchange; four big exporters and 5,000 trappers prospered, and many airlines cashed in on the boom...
...this triumphal progress. Krishna Menon was problem enough when he had only the ear of Nehru; now that he has discovered the knack of getting India's ear as well, he may become a power threat in the Congress Party's annual convention next week in Assam...
...vast belt running across four of its northeastern states lie an estimated 20.8 billion tons of iron ore and 26 billion tons of coal. Indian steel production last year was 1,900,000 tons (v. Red China's 4,000,000 tons). Indian exports-manganese, tea from Assam, jute from Bengal and cotton cloth from Bombay and Madras-will earn about $1.3 billion this year...
...regrouping" Naga villagers into what amounted to concentration camps, and heralded the formation of a single, self-governing "autonomy within the Indian nation" out of the two largest Naga areas. This new "state" will unite some 250,000 Nagas now living under the hated and mistrusted government of Assam with another 200,000 of their fellow tribesmen in rugged, steep-hilled Tuensang...