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...vaqueros of Spanish Mexico, spread across the West in the mid-1800s. At first, trail-driving cowboys practiced the art on range steers, but so many good beef cattle were crippled that steer roping was outlawed in Texas 60 years ago. Today's rodeo cowboys rope calves-mean Brahman calves that weigh up to 300 Ibs. and can smash a roper's ribs with one kick. The roper races against time: on horseback, he must run down and lasso a charging calf, jump off his horse, wrestle the calf on its side, loop three of its legs with...
Taskmaster for the border war is Lieut. General Brij Mohan Kaul, 50, a Kashmiri Brahman distantly related to Prime Minister Nehru. When the Chinese Reds overwhelmed the Indian border posts last month, General Kaul was absent-ill with pneumonia, he had been evacuated, almost by force, to New Delhi. Now fully recovered and back at his headquarters in Tezpur, Kaul is determined to regain all the lost territory. The task is formidable. By an accident of geography, the Himalayan border is more easily reached from the Chinese-held Tibetan plateau than from the plains of India. Kaul's army...
...judge of a bucking bull is his meanness in the arena, and on that count, 14-year-old "Aught"-half Brahman, half Hereford-probably qualifies as the orneriest critter in captivity. Starting his 13th year on the rodeo circuit, he has been saddled with 482 riders-only six have managed to stay on his back for the required eight seconds. "Those six times, he must've been colicky." says one cowboy. The roster of Aught's conquests is the Who's Who of rodeo: Harry Tompkins (five-time world champion bull rider), Billy Hand, Gid Garstead, Pete...
...Menon belongs to the Nair subcaste of the Sudra caste, lowest of the four main Hindu castes (Brahman, Kshatriya, Vaishya and Sudra). According to Hindu tradition, the Brahmans sprang from the head of the deity, the Sudras from the feet...
...Rajagopalachari, India's most prestigious elder statesman, attacks Nehru personally. "C.R.," also nicknamed "Rajaji," has stung Nehru by calling the Congress reign "corrupt and dishonest . . . worse than the rule of the Mogul emperor," has accused him of leading India to statism and Communism. A bowed and frail Madras Brahman whom Gandhi once called "keeper of my conscience," C.R. was a leader in the Congress freedom fight against the British, was the only Indian ever to serve as India's Governor General. A leader of the Congress right wing, he quit the party in 1959 when it passed...