Word: bihar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Aboard the yacht Fakhr el Bihar, accompanied by two destroyers, an ambassador, three courtiers and a staff of 50 (plus five Cadillacs and a station wagon), Egypt's Queen Narriman, 17, and King Farouk, 31, arrived in Taormina, Sicily to spend the first ten days of their two-month honeymoon. The entourage took up a 60-room wing in the Hotel San Domenico, a converted monastery, where the royal couple shared what the management refers to as "the Truman suite" (named for an anticipated visit by the President which never came off): a reception room, two bedrooms, a connecting...
From all over India's province of Bihar and across the border from Nepal, the blind and the nearly blind arrived on foot, by oxcart and crowded railway car. They had come for the seventh annual eye clinic at the town of Darbhanga (pop. 69,203). Some sang and some prayed as a troop of Boy Scouts, led by a betel-nut-chewing Scoutmaster with a voice like a sideshow barker's, herded them in & out of 20 weather-beaten tents that formed a temporary hospital. Their hospital beds were pallets of straw; their only covering...
Every 40 Seconds. "It's a kind of madness with me, this removing cataracts," said grizzled Dr. Mathra Dass Pahwa, 71, last week. But it was a madness full of method. Local doctors believe that cataracts and other eye troubles are commoner in the Bihar area than anywhere on earth. Just out of medical school in Lahore back in 1902, Dr. Dass determined to do something about it. His first eye operation, he remembers, was "terrible." But in three years, he had improved considerably. "I spent my own money sending people out to villages to bring me cataract patients...
...survivor, Abdul Qaiyum Ansari, Minister of Rehabilitation of Bihar State, inspected the track where the accident had occurred. He found that the iron fishplates used to join sections of rail had been removed in two places and that the disconnected end of one rail had been pushed slightly inward...