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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...present dewan, buoyant N. K. Rustomji, spent 18 years in Britain, but has become so attached to his work that he walks around Sikkimese style in a gleaming, embroidered bakkhu with a Great Dane said by the Sikkimese to be a reincarnation of Albert Einstein. The dewan considers his main task to be "the Sikkimization" of Sikkim-the attempt to preserve Sikkim's culture and identity from too much Tibetan or Chinese influence. The Indians are also pushing a $7,000,000 seven-year plan to modernize Sikkim's covered-wagon transport, build schools and roads...
...suave front men who operated their revolution across polished desks in Havana, New York and Caracas, gathering money from rich friends, channeling it to the international arms dealers who ran guns to Castro. Last week some of these men were coming to the surface: Economist Rufo Lopez Fresquet, a main channel for rebel money; Broker Ignacio Mendoza, who hid hot rebels in his rich Havana home; Julio Duarte, secretary of the Cuban Bar Association and a top rebel organizer; "Comandante Diego," a still-unidentified rebel who bossed Havana saboteurs...
Buffoon or not, Shima has a lot to explain. On Oct. 25, 1944, the second day of the historic sea fight, Shima steamed toward Surigao Strait, south of Leyte Gulf, with two heavy cruisers, a light cruiser and four destroyers, still distant from the main battle. He hoped to reach Leyte Gulf in time to harass U.S. landing forces there, but his entire contribution to the battle, as Historian Morison observes, was to ram his flagship into a crippled heavy cruiser of another Japanese force, after firing 16 torpedoes at two islands he mistook for U.S. ships...
...comparison, Japanese Buddhism sees no need for a God and is "practical and psychological." Its main concern, to Kishimoto, is "why humans have so many unnecessary worries." He said it is now the dominant power among religions in Japan...
Appearing on WGBH-TV, Channel 2, Woodworth will discuss symphonic music from Mozart to Prokofieff. He stated that the course is designed "to train students in intelligent listening" and "to survey the main currents in the development of musical style...