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Long before Darwin made the same claim for the whole human race, the fierce Dafia tribesmen of India's northeast frontier were proudly claiming descent from monkeys. To prove it, they wore false tails, swung happily among tree branches, screeched wildly in apelike imitation of Kipling's Bandar-log and grubbed under stones and logs for beetles which they ate whole and kicking...
...Trans World Airline Constellation, bound for a destination new to its crew: Ceylon. Some 41 hours and 10,000 miles later it put down at Colombo, the thriving capital. By week's end it was back with a cargo of 100 lbs. of Ceylon's finest tea, bandar Eliya (cost, $2.17 a lb.), a gift for T.W.A.'s officers for starting the first U.S. air service to the picturesque island. T.W.A. opened the route by extending its Bombay flight 1,000 miles to the southeast...
...port of Bandar Mashur, troops shot down one woman in a mob of strikers. At Abadan nine strikers were killed. With clubs, rocks and fists, the mob battered to death three British employees of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co., mauled six others. Strikers there all but shut down the world's largest oil refinery...
...revolt had made rapid progress since it welled up less than two months ago. Most of Azerbaijan (see map) was already in rebel hands. Rebel columns sped along the swampy Caspian littoral to seize the town of Bandar Shah; they headed east toward Iran's sacred city of Meshed...
Corporal Slick's Ride. The battle of Stalingrad was under way when the first men of the P.G.C. landed. Droves of supply-packed Liberty ships soon followed. But from the port of Bandar Shahpur there was no transport to Russia except a single-track railroad, running across desert as bare as the Sahara and through 47 miles of tunnels in mountains almost as high as the Rockies...