Word: kabul
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From Carson City to Kabul, the audience sighed pleasurably and started feeling for its shoes. The chase was over. In sunny France last week, the son of the Prophet finally did right by little Rita...
...Robert Fluker, an ex-Kansas football star, now teaching math at Kabul University, tried to give the Afghans some good, clean fun by organizing the country's first boxing matches and baseball games. Premier Sha'h Mahmoud Khan, who has a son at Harvard (and is a Gershwin fan), lobbed out the first ball, and smiled inscrutably as the game progressed from error to error. Since Afghan bagpipers on the sidelines tootled furiously and folk dancers whooped and whirled, the errors were understandable...
...Kabul's bazaars, the oldest in Asia, displayed the same kind of goods they had when Marco Polo stopped off there seven centuries ago. New items had been added. Mostly from the U.S. had come the lawn mowers, baby carriages, perfumes, canned goods...
...Western influence in Afghanistan has its competition. The Russian legation in Kabul is larger than the other legations combined. Russian propaganda is hampered-not by any innate Afghan democratic leanings, but by a rigidly enforced law which makes any political talk or activity, except that sponsored by the Government, a criminal offense...
...Afghanistan, desperately in need of outside supplies, was finally made eligible for Lend-Lease. A U.S. official went to Kabul to ask the Afghans what they needed most. They said "everything." He suggested medicines as a starter. The Afghan committee withdrew with a drug catalogue, returned next day with a list that began: " 1) Medicine to ease a weary heart...