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Officially, Pakistan was as altruistic as India. Its troops were there, said Jinnah's government, to prevent refugees from crossing the borders. Meanwhile, on a 300-mile front that stretched crescent-like across India's biggest state, the fighting raged in one of the strangest wars of modern times...
...Tribe, slams at the eye like a fist. The Ashanti fertility fetish, carried on the backs of pregnant women to help make their children beautiful, has the simplicity of a lollipop but the elegance of a Donatello; the yellow & black Ibibio carving, used in secret female dances, sits its crescent moon with awesome assurance; and the Mpongwe stilt-dance "Mask of the Dead" is ennobled, not coarsened, by its cruel tattoos...
Last November Coulter bought a roomy house on fashionable Wellington Crescent. Last week, when Coulter asked Alderman Charles Simonite to fill his place for ten days; his city knew what...
Andrews likes to hold off-the-record gatherings of opposition bureau chiefs in his apartment on fashionable Crescent Place. There many a Washington bigwig has sat down, drink in hand, to face a quizzing. Says persistent Bert Andrews, who would rather share many facts than miss a few: "Ten guys asking questions are better than one-you all learn more...
Even the British were forced to retract the statement that the refugees of the Pan York and Pan Crescent were predominantly communist. The British had something of a case here, it had seemed at first, because many of these refugees spoke Russian as well as Yiddish. When pressed for proof of the original assertion, however, the commander of the refugees' camp at Cyprus flatly denied that these refugees, who were screened at Cyprus, were communists...