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...distracted him from the tigers was the perennial worry of TIME'S three correspondents in India (Bureau Chief James Burke and Achal Rangaswami are the other two). Their worry: how to get around quickly enough to cover their immense beat-not only India and Pakistan, but also Burma, Ceylon and Nepal. Burke, Brown and Rangaswami must track down news in a territory that is eight times as big as Texas: some 2,000,000 square miles. It includes more than 400 million people (one-fifth of all the people on earth), and the number of dialects spoken in this...
...himself in one of the less altruistic episodes in the annals of the sea. Author Gibson's gory little memoir, a classic of its kind, begins when the Dutch steamer Rooseboom, carrying more than 500 evacuees from Malaya, was torpedoed in the Indian Ocean, halfway to Ceylon. Gibson was one of 135 survivors who swam to the only lifeboat left afloat, one designed to hold 28 (80 got aboard). Like many of the others, Gibson was wounded: his collarbone was fractured and a shell fragment had lodged in his leg. On the first day, the captain took stock...
Most nations take years and shed much blood running the political gamut from monarchy to anarchy. But in the placid, unruffled Maldive Islands, which lie some 400 miles southwest of Ceylon in the Indian Ocean, these things are done more calmly. Last January, after centuries of autocratic rule under a sultanate, the Maldives became the world's youngest republic by simple popular vote (TIME, Jan. 12). There was no trouble whatever; the sultans had long since tired of their confining work, and Amin Didi, the man the Maldivians unanimously elected to serve as both President and Prime Minister...
...tossed cousin Amin Didi in jail and took over the government themselves. Just what the political stage was at that point no outsider knew, since the Maldives' only connection with the world is through still another cousin, Ahmed Hilmi Didi, who promptly quit his job as ambassador to Ceylon. "I have been kept completely in the dark," said Ahmed Didi last week. "All I know is that Amin Didi has resigned...
...would be onstage again in the fall, alongside Husband Sir Laurence Olivier. She traced the beginning of her illness back to her 1949 London performance in A Streetcar Named Desire ("A grueling nine months' run-it took a lot out of me"). The heat of moviemaking in tropical Ceylon last winter and the long flight back to Hollywood had been the last straw...