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...simple, rugged men of mountainous Nepal, the word "muhammad" means great and strong. It seems a fine name to give a faithful dog. To the touchy Moslem minority in the state of Uttar Pradesh near New Delhi, however, the same syllables, no matter what their spelling, mean only one thing: Mohammed, the Prophet. One day last month a Nepalese traveler named Maganlal Shah came to Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh and lost his dog, a dog so beloved that he led it with a silver chain. Maganlal advertised in the Lucknow Pioneer: "Lost, from the Hindustan Hotel, one fox breed...
Born in Calcutta of a family that had served in India since 1805, he was as excited about India as though he had gone there from a Midwestern farm. He was afire with the need to make good with his Gurkha troops, tribesmen from Nepal whose qualities as men and soldiers still excite his respect and imagination: "There were no excuses, no grumbling, no shirking, no lying. There was no intrigue, no apple-polishing, and no servility." Not until two years had passed did they put the seal of approval on the young subaltern. It was a loyalty worth having...
...Thirteen non-Communist nations: Austria, Cambodia, Ceylon, Finland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Laos, Libya, Nepal, Portugal, Spain. Five Communist states: Albania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Rumania and Outer Mongolia. * Urged by John Foster Dulles in 1950, while Republican adviser to Secretary of State Dean Acheson, on the ground that "the U.N. will best serve the cause of peace if its Assembly is representative of what the world actually is, and not merely representative of the parts that we like...
...duties, Indira has ordered daily rehearsals for New Delhi's schoolchildren in throwing flowers and shouting "welcome" in preparation for next week's visit of Russia's Nikita Khrushchev and Nikolai Bulganin. Last week her trained tots got a run-through welcoming the visiting King of Nepal. And close observers noticed a new recurrent phrase in India's press. Instead of the customary "enthusiastic masses" greeting Nehru, the phrase has become "enthusiastic but disciplined masses greeted Prime Minister Nehru and Mrs. Indira Gandhi...
Lion & Oryx. Thus the rhino has been hunted almost to extinction. In Nepal says Talbot, the Indian rhinoceros has another ecological problem. The Nepalese use rhinos to speed the upward reincarnation of the souls of their ancestors The cure for delay in this process is to kill a rhino, sit inside its carcass, and drink to the health of the ancestor's soul in rhino blood...