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...Delhi, the temperature was 100.7°, and the welcome even warmer. There, warned by Bombay, the police had put up barriers of steel tubing to hold back the crowds, who came 10,000 strong by bus, bicycle, rickshaw and bullock cart to shout "Long live the God of Peace." But the steel was as a willow withe before a flood. As India's President, flanked by Indian officials, proffered his returning Prime Minister a bunch of roses, the fence fell and the crowd surged forward. Somebody yanked the President to safety, but the Minister of Production lost a sandal...
Last week from all over India the Lohars converged on Chitor. In the great plain below the landship fortress, their 4,000 bullock carts were drawn up in huge circles like the covered wagons of American pioneers. Over their wagons flew tattered Rajput sun flags (symbolizing the god Rama) and banners reading, "Hail Emperor Nehru." Few of the tribesmen had ever heard of Prime Minister Nehru, but they knew that a great badshah (ruler) had offered to succor them at Chitor, a place they had always avoided in their wanderings...
Died. Kamilla Koffler, 44, Austrian-born wildlife photographer, known professionally as "Ylla"; of injuries received in a jeep accident while photographing a bullock-cart race; in Bharatpur, India...
...NANCY F. BULLOCK Pearl River...
...Socialist who sometimes talks like a Marxist (his closest ideological neighbors seem to be the Yugoslav Reds). U Nu's constitution proclaims that the state is the ultimate owner of all land; in collective-minded Burma, no one will eventually own more than 50 acres, a two-bullock plot. U Nu's principal associates, Defense Minister U Ba Swe and Industries Minister U Kyaw Nyein. both talk as if Burma must be led towards total nationalization of industry, total cooperative ownership and working of the land...