Word: indianized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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BOAC's crews in Asia, carrying only overnight cases, enjoying the semiofficial aura of their familiar dark blue uniforms, making frequent comings and goings, usually got casual treatment from customs officials. But last May Indian customs at Calcutta's Dum Dum airport found a 7-oz. gold bar in Chinese Stewardess Jenny Wang's handbag. (Her explanation: Hong Kong residents "customarily" carry gold as "mad money" in case the Chinese Communists should suddenly overrun the city.) A fellow steward, David Furlonger, seeing her being searched, was overheard by an Indian customs official as he remarked...
Nonetheless, come fall, India again intends to sponsor Red China's admission to the U.N. But no longer with the old unanimity. "Is there no limit to the humiliations and harassments we are prepared to accept at China's hands?" asked the Indian Express...
Manila announced that Tibet's Dalai Lama, in Indian haven after escaping the Red Chinese invaders of his land, had won this year's Ramon Magsaysay Award for community leadership, a salute for the god-king's role in Tibet's "gallant struggle...
They will need it, for Milwaukee's Braves are far from dead. After five players had failed to fill the hole left at second by Red Schoendienst, out with tuberculosis, Manager Fred Haney is finally getting some help from Bobby Avila, 33, the old Cleveland Indian, who knows what to do with the ball, even though he cannot go far to get it. Schoendienst may be back by September, but in the meantime Haney can more than make do with the men who won for him in 1957 and 1958: husky Third Baseman Ed Mathews is still hitting home...
Behind Closed Doors. Some of the personality clues are teasers. Any Capitol reporter knows that North Dakota's Senator William Langer chews cigars in their cellophane wrappers, but who is meant by the honorable gentleman who has love affairs all over Washington? The Indian Ambassador, Khrishna Khaleel, is obviously a scathing caricature of India's Khrishna Menon, but who are the models for 1) the liberal Supreme Court judge who cannot stay out of politics; 2) the tireless adviser to everybody; 3) the meddlesome cardinal...