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Doves in the Streets. "I have wanted to visit the Soviet Union for a long time, to see this remarkable and celebrated city," said Nehru in Hindi.* The Russians had it all fixed for him. In a big black ZIS open convertible, Nehru and Bulganin headed a procession of official cars down the Leningradsky Chaussée into Moscow's Gorky Street. Every mile of the way was crowded with thousands of cheering Muscovites...
...brought floods to the Brahmaputra Valley had not yet brought relief to New Delhi. In the dusty streets, bullocks steamed and lepers drowsed beside their begging bowls; in his office, a peevish Prime Minister grumbled about curdled milk, loudly complained about a badly designed public building, ticked off a Hindi language enthusiast in testy Hindi, finally flounced off for an hour's relaxation at a private screening of Danny Kaye's Knock on Wood...
...most TIME foreign correspondents on a new assignment is to hire a tutor for language lessons. Even the most fluent linguists usually need a refresher course in such staples as French, German, Spanish, Portuguese or Italian. Some other languages with which TIME correspondents have grappled: Dutch, Arabic, Russian, Hindi, Tamil, Urdu, Korean, Afrikaans, Greek, Japanese and Chinese. There was, for example, the lady visitor who recently walked into TIME'S Rome office and heard two staff members chatting heatedly in Japanese. Said she: "This organization should be located somewhere east of Suez...
Russia & Uncle Fitzgerald. At home in New Delhi, the Bowles family took to India with enthusiasm. They studied Hindi, and Bowles organized language classes for the embassy staff. The children went to Indian schools, and the girls threw away their bobby-sox for flowing local costumes. Cynthia, aged 16, did public-health work with Indian nursing students and spent her vacations in Indian villages. When Bowles was recalled, she stayed behind to finish her first-year studies at the Santiniketan Indian college...
...seemed quite happy to stay. The Communist explainer moved halfway round his table, and threatened the P.W. The Swiss wagged his finger in the explainer's face, and cried, "You shut up. You shut up." The Poles and Czechs shouted at the Swiss, and the Indian shouted in Hindi to the guards. At this moment of turmoil, a black U.S. Chevrolet with three stars on its bumper drove up to the tent, and India's strapping Lieut. General K. S. Thimayya stepped out. "This is absurd," said he. "It's got to stop." He promptly ordered...