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Word: attock (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Politics & Mangel-Wurzels. Rab was born Dec. 9, 1902, in the mud-walled village of Attock Serai in northwest India (now Pakistan). The Butlers were a famous family in India. Rab's father, the late Sir Montagu S. D. Butler, became a governor of the Central Provinces, and was knighted for his services before going home to become a master of Cambridge's Pembroke College. His uncle, a close friend of Nehru's father, became governor of Burma. His Scottish mother was related to the great liberal economist Adam Smith. The eldest of four children, young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The New Tory | 4/5/1954 | See Source »

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