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Several persons associated with Harvard have been invited to the wedding of Birenda Bir Bikram Shah Dev, Crown Prince of Nepal, which may prove to be the biggest Katmandu social event of the decade...
...Dort, tic, iki, bir!" Thus, with a kind of wild excitement, went the countdown for the Apollo 11 moon landing as heard over Istanbul Radio...
...Royal Highness Birendra Bir Bickram Shah Dev, the 21-year-old Crown Prince of Nepal, will study at Harvard next year as a special student...
...elite organizations, comparable to the U.S. Marines and Britain's Brigade of Guards. To its own members (over the years the majority have been German or Slav), the Legion is an unparalleled string of battles, from Constantine in 1837 to Sebastopol, Magenta, the Somme, Verdun, Narvik, Bir Hakeim, Cassino, Dienbienphu, and Algiers in 1960. Its flag, "whose staff bends under the weight of its glory," is one of the most cited and decorated of all the world's regimental standards...
...months ago King Mahendra Bir Bikram Shah Deva brusquely jailed Prime Minister B. P. Koirala, thus bringing an abrupt end to the first government ever to be elected democratically in Nepal. Then, the King explained ingeniously that he had acted because the Koirala government was "killing the people's democratic aspirations." Last week, talking to a TIME correspondent in Katmandu, the King gave a more candid reason: "The Koirala government was always trying to put me in an awkward position . . . It preached that the King was standing in the way of reform...