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...fours, wolfs down raw meat and laps water like an animal . . . There was some speculation the boy might have been reared by jackals, but [the attending doctor] said jackals often devour their young, while she-wolves are known to have strong maternal instincts." In the hospital at Lucknow, India, where the boy was being treated, reported A.P., the wolf boy "cringes from the light . . . snarls," and has "tried to bite attendants." The wire services and the dozens of papers that ran the story (including the New York Herald Tribune and the Baltimore Sun) left out one detail about the "wolf...
Last week's "wolf boy" followed the familiar pattern of his ancestors. A mentally retarded child, who apparently had been partially paralyzed by a birth injury, he was found abandoned in a third-class railway coach in Lucknow. Doctors at the hospital where he was taken discovered he had two sets of upper incisors, hastily jumped to a series of unwarranted, nonmedical conclusions. The English-language Lucknow National Herald (est. circ. 10,000) heard about it, carried the first story reporting that the boy "seems to have been taken away to the jungle by jackals when just a small...
...told the P.W.s at once that they would protect the P.W.s' "right to be repatriated" (not the right to non-repatriation). When the first explanations bogged down, Indian newspapers automatically blamed the U.N. "The U.N. command has actually obstructed the neutrals' work," said the National Herald of Lucknow, which is run by one of Nehru's favorite editors. "The U.N. side has not played fair," cried the Hindustan Standard. "It has allowed prisoners to be influenced and indoctrinated...
Myopia & Light. In the resultant editorial hand-wringing the world over, the sensitive Indians were probably the most bitter. THE WORLD'S CHAMPION BLUNDERER, headlined the middle-of-the-road People of Lucknow, meaning the U.S. "An affront to peace," said the big Times of India. "History will not pardon her [the U.S.]" said Calcutta's conservative Amrita Bazar Patrika, "if humanity is pushed into another holocaust by her myopic politicians." But there were notable exceptions to the cries of grief and indignation. In staunchly anti-Communist Greece and Turkey, pro-government papers backed the U.S. position...
Forces of Chaos. By last week four people had been killed, 200 seriously injured, a thousand hurt. The city was paralyzed, and a general strike was spreading across Bengal. Mobs surged unchecked through the streets. From Lucknow, Jawaharlal Nehru commented despairingly: "Looking at happenings in Calcutta," he said, "it seems as if Indians are a mad race. We achieved freedom by peaceful means ... It will be a bad day for India if leadership passes into the hands of such forces of chaos." At week's end the government surrendered to the rioters, called off the fare increase...