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...China's bullying behavior forced all eyes in its direction. When Nehru last week journeyed to the Nepalese border to dedicate a new dam that is being started on the raging Kosi River, a crowd of 100,000 gathered to hail him and Nepal's youthful King Mahendra, 38. Afterward, the two leaders conferred for several hours. King Mahendra fears Nepal may be the next victim of Red China's aggression, is well aware that on Communist maps his mountain-locked country is shown as Chinese territory. In the desperate hope that Moscow might have a restraining...
...prayer. There are nearly as many Living Buddhas as there are lamaseries, including one female incarnation whose name translates as "Thunderbolt Sow." Prayer is everywhere, on the lips of men and on flags and bits of paper stamped with woodblock imprints of the sacred words: "Om mani padme hum [Hail, the jewel in the lotus)." The phrase flutters from tall poles outside villages, from trees and cairns; it is stuffed inside the chortens' hollow towers at crossroads, and revolves constantly in the prayer wheels in every temple, nearly every house. There is gold in Tibet that cannot be mined...
...slate, aided in part by the weather that kept many voters indoors, swept into office in Kansas City's municipal elections. In the process they knocked out the nonpartisan Citizens Association Party that had ruled the once corrupt city for 19 healthy years. Citizens Association survivor of the hail-battered election: popular Mayor H. (for Harold) Roe Bartle...
From the balcony comes the screech of a man's voice proclaiming a poem. Its refrain: "Hail to thee, Kassem, our jewel, defender of democracy, destroyer of our enemies...
...Force General Nathan Twining, his rakish fedora and hail-fellow grin somewhat more suggestive of a precinct boss on election night than a hard-working Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, showed up in mufti, as he often does, for a brass-tacks Monday conference with the President on military matters...