Word: nepal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Carl C. Jorgenson has been accepted for the Nepal project, and expects to teach mathematics. Roger C. Wolf will help develop low-cost housing in Tunisia, and Donald K. Emery has been assigned to West Africa...
...Indian good-neighbor policy only encouraged the Chinese to look southward with greater interest. "Tibet is the palm of the hand, and the Chinese have it," says one Indian. "Now they want the five fingers without which the palm is useless." The five fingers (see color map) are Ladakh, Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan, and the North East Frontier Agency. To the Chinese, all five stick out like sore thumbs...
...NEPAL (pop. 9,500,000) is an independent kingdom that economically and militarily is virtually dependent on India...
...repeated sorties by Indian-backed and -based rebels against the Nepalese government have strained relations with India so severely that King Mahendra for the first time was making overtures to Red China. Already the Chinese have agreed to build a road between Nepal's capital city of Katmandu and Lhasa in Tibet. Backbone of the Nepalese economy is the employment in the British and Indian armies of the 20,000 tough little Nepalese Gurkha soldiers; from their annual pay they send home $5,000,000-equal to a fourth or more of Nepal's yearly budget...
Vocabulary of Drawings. To advance her studies, Mrs. Kellogg, 64, has gathered half a million children's drawings into her San Francisco house. The collection-by far the world's biggest-is mostly American, but also ranges through 32 foreign countries to places as far away as Nepal. Mrs. Kellogg's careful catalogues of the drawings provide massive evidence that children everywhere rely on a universal vocabulary of scribbles in their early drawings. She has noted 20 basic scribbles in six classic forms: cross, X, square, circle, triangle, closed free form...