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...meet this danger, the Indian army put a 190-man mission into Nepal, and built the first military road from India to Katmandu. The first dusty Indian jeep sped along this road last week, a symbol of India's belated concern for her great mountain frontier...
...over the city, crowds began upsetting and burning British cars and police jeeps. They burst into the city hall and ran an Italian flag up to half-staff. On the third day they broke into Independentista headquarters, threw furniture, draperies and records out of the windows. When the rioters surged toward the Piazza dell'Unitá again, the police tried to stop them with jeep and motorcycle charges. Then they fired their carbines into the crowd, and that cleared the square, except for the dead and wounded...
...work canvassing her constituents and winning them over to her side. During the first years of Paul's reign, scarcely a square mile in all the 51,000 that formed Greece was left untrodden by either the King, the Queen or the royal couple together. They rode in jeeps, crossed mountains on muleback, slept on dirt floors and ate with the peasants. No fighting front was too hot to keep them away. Once with Paul at the wheel, the royal jeep took a short cut through a mined road. The Queen picked up her husband's baton...
...General Motors distributorship based in Kansas City, Mo., Robert Greenlease was 65 when his 39-year-old wife bore him a son. The boy, Bobby, grew into an alert six-year-old who always knew what he wanted and usually got it. His kiddie car was a battery-powered jeep, scaled to his size, and his pets included a green parrot and a French poodle...
...cars were on sale to the public, the brothers estimate that the price might be about $1,000, but the French Ministry of National Defense has other plans. It is putting the car through exhaustive tests that may result in its being adopted as the French version of the jeep...