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...portcullis should long since have ended. But every night the College's foremost medievalists keep alive the tradition. At 10 p.m. the University policemen clang shut two of the three gates leading into the Yard from Massachusetts Avenue. After that hour Lamont Library stands as a besieged fortress, nearly isolated from the Houses because of an outmoded regulation. House-bound students must trudge all the way to the Holyoke or Quincy Street exits before they can return to Plympton Street--the logical path to Adms, Leverett, and Dunster...
Like all the rest of India's 562 reigning princes, the maharaja was stripped of a great deal of his wealth after India became a free nation in 1947. Confiscated by Nehru's government were his solid gold and silver temple, a fortress filled with jewels, all his palaces but one, three-fourths of his private possessions. The royal herd of 200 elephants melted down to a mere dozen or so, and only a dozen polo ponies remain from his prewar champion string of 100. Even so, the maharaja still manages to make ends meet...
...school is Oskar Kokoschka, 69, who signs himself "O.K." and is proving very much O.K. in Salzburg this season. Kokoschka's sets for a festival performance of Mozart's Magic Flute were the hit of the show (TIME, Aug. 8), his summer art school in a fortress overlooking the city was going strong, and an exhibition of his last three years' work drew raves from the critics...
...miles southwest of Calcutta, got a chance to test the truth of Nehru's warning. For a long time there had been talk of strange goings-on at the Kaliaboda math near by. A math is a holy place, but the one at Kaliaboda looked more Uke a fortress. Its walls were guarded by archers, and out of its portals from time to time issued a number of besotted sadhus who beat up the local inhabitants. When women began disappearing, people of the surrounding villages demanded that the police look into the Kaliaboda math...
...Last Stand. When military police reached the scene, many of the sadhus had fled, but a sturdy minority, including Pagala Baba, had retired to a maze of underground cells within the tunnel-honeycombed fortress, and had to be flushed out one by one with tear gas. In the courtyard the police found a huge chariot in which the mad monk's disciples were wont to haul him about. Statues of Pagala Baba were displayed in the gardens and orchards of the math. His bedroom was adorned with tiger skins and statuettes of nude women. Underground, behind steel doors...