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Young as nymphs are the temple dancers in Bali. At 12 they are too old for the temple, retire and usually marry. But when Temple-dancer Devi Dja (pronounced Davy Jah) was dancing the Legong in Klunklung,* the late, great Anna Pavlowa visited neighboring Java for a couple of concerts, and round-faced Dancer Devi Dja went to see her dance. Result: Devi Dja decided that 12 was over-young to quit. So she collected a group of other aging temple-dancers, started giving commercial performances for visiting tourists. Two years ago Devi Dja's dancers toured Java...
Last week Devi Dja and her group of 20-odd mum, placid-faced little Balinese landed in Manhattan. With them was Prince Raden Waloejo, cousin of Java's reigning sultan, himself a pretty good dancer of the Wajang-Wong (ancient Balinese national epic). Also in the troupe were nine gamelan musicians with queer gongs and xylophones, a special Balinese cook to home-cook rice and fish, Devi Dja's younger (18) sister Devi Emah with her ten-months-old baby...
...Devi," "Good old Dev, you've done a fine piece of work," rang out from thousands of Irish throats as the Prime Minister next day sailed up Dublin Bay. Political observers were agreed that "Dev" had come out on the long end of his three months' negotiations with the British. The only Irish demand not granted concerned the union of Eire and the six counties of Protestant Northern Ireland. This was temporarily shelved by de Valera in order 'to gain the other concessions, but it is deemed likely now that, with Anglo-Irish relations on a "good...
...good book on mountain climbing can give almost any non-climber an attack of armchair vertigo. In The Ascent of Nando. Devi Mountain-Climber Tilman dizzied many a reader with his account of his climb, in 1936, to the summit of India's Nanda Devi (25,660 ft.), the highest mountain ever scaled by man. Last week, while Mountaineer Tilman was on his way to try another climb of Mt. Everest, he dizzied U. S. readers again, in a book that told of his slides, falls and narrow escapes in the mountains of equatorial Africa...
...proved to be a veritable training school for most of the country's best younger climbers, and Durand pointed with pride to the fact that of the eight men who formed an expedition to climb Nanda Devi, highest scaled peak in the world, six were members or former members of the club. The other were from the British Alpine Club...