Word: deserting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...things with Yugoslavia's ruddy Marshal Tito, recently returned from his state visit to the Far East and togged for the nautical occasion in his braid-laden admiral's uniform. Their conference lasted six hours while the Ghaleb steamed from Port Suez up the canal to the desert city of Ismailia...
...their belief in the inescapability of Karma and the illusory nature of the created world. But Calcutta's Rameshwar Tantia is a new kind of Hindu; he likes action-especially for his own home region of Marwar, in western Rajasthan. and for all the people in the surrounding desert country. A wealthy businessman (jute, tea, mining), 45-year-old Philanthropist Tantia has arranged new marriages for poor widows, paying the indispensable dowries out of his own pocket. His latest good work: uncovering the Bhil ladies...
Tantia held his breath as the village headmen rose and approached; he was relieved when they thanked him. The Black God, Kaladev, did not seem to object either. Last week Tantia was busy with a project to bring water to the desert people. But after that, he had another urgent job to do-shopping for more odhnis...
With Lawrence the man thus disposed of, Biographer Aldington proceeds to attack his place in history by denying 1) that Lawrence played a major part in the Arab revolt in the desert, and 2) that the revolt itself was a significant aspect of the war. "All the preliminaries which led to the rebellion," he writes, "occurred before Lawrence ever reached Cairo, [and they] would certainly have occurred if Lawrence had never existed...
...passengers. Pioneer yarn-spinner among the neo-Münchausen breed is George Adamski, a self-described Southern California "philosopher, student, teacher, saucer researcher" and former short-order cook who claimed (in last year's Flying Saucers Have Landed) that he stood beside a saucer on the California desert in November 1952 and talked (telepathically) with a tanned, short visitor from Venus...