Word: burma
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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INCLINED TOWARD PEKING but split, the parties of Burma, Indonesia, Malaya, Morocco, Thailand...
...sent to the French mandate of Syria and Lebanon just in time to be plunged into fighting against the Djebel Druse tribesmen and be wounded again. Next, he served in French Indo-China as administrator of a corner of jungle near the borders of China, Burma and Laos. In the solitude of his post. Salan dabbled in Oriental philosophy and astrology, is said to have experimented with opium. These predilections won him the nickname of "the Mandarin." Like many French officers, he took an Indo-Chinese mistress, who bore...
Home again from a goodwill tour of the Far East that had won her a host of new friends (TIME, Dec. 15), Britain's coltish Princess Alexandra, 25, mourned the loss of an old one-the beloved teddy bear that she had mislaid sometime during a cruise down Burma's Irrawaddy River. This week, both the Burmese Army and the R.A.F. having confessed failure in massive teddy bear hunts, someone in the royal family was bound to be shopping for a Christmas replacement for the furry creature that had been Alexandra's pillow pal since childhood...
...ROAD PAST MANDALAY, by John Masters. The author, a British officer in the Indian army in Burma during World War II and a professional novelist (Bhowani Junction) since then, writes with skill and passion of the many faces...
...Rangoon to return a 1955 state visit from Burma's Prime Minister U Nu, Israeli Premier David Ben-Gurion, 75, embarked upon a program unlikely to win cheers from rigidly orthodox religious leaders back in Jerusalem. Once the demands of protocol had been discharged, the patriarch of the Jewish homeland intended to indulge a longtime fascination with Buddhism by making a ten-day contemplative retreat at the home of U Nu, himself a Buddhist monk. Meantime, livening up the diplomatic garden parties, Ben-Gurion wowed his hosts by showing up attired like a potbellied pixy in Burma...