Word: nepal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when he hiked around Western Tibet with an older sister. Soon after graduating from Yale ('36) he decided "to abandon all thoughts of a prosperous and worthy future and devote myself to birds." Ripley's career as a migrant ornithologist took him to Southeast Asia, Nepal and India. During World War II, as the OSS intelligence chief in Ceylon, he happily combined bird watching with training secret agents...
...nation. It may succeed at least in raising Russia's ante in Africa and Asia. At week's end, as Chou left for Algeria, Nikita Khrushchev was reportedly planning his own swing through Africa. Before visiting Cairo next spring, he may also junket to India and Nepal on Chou's back doorstep. Then it will be Nikita's turn to tell who will bury whom...
...world failed to order the rites of tolling bells and lowered flags. Theaters and sports arenas closed down on individual impulse. With the news of Kennedy's death, a Viennese ice show halted in mid-performance; in Belgium, a six-day bicycle race was interrupted; in distant Nepal, the ceremonial opening of a leprosarium was postponed...
...Donor nations: the U.S., Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan. Recipients: Bhutan, Burma, Cambodia, Ceylon, India, Indonesia, Lacs, Malaysia, Nepal, Pakistan, the Philippines, South Korea, South Viet Nam, Thailand...
...name as the fact-finding mission the old 1954 Indo-China International Control Commission, which included Poland. But after behind-the-scenes bargaining, the Assembly decided to let Sosa Rodriguez choose the delegation. He appointed to it the U.N. representatives of Afghanistan, Brazil, Ceylon, Costa Rica, Dahomey, Morocco and Nepal. The mission was expected to leave this week...