Word: northerns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Distinction. Stopping the intermittent bloodletting on the Gaza strip was Hammarskjold's most dramatic effort (TIME, April 30), but winning peace pledges along Israel's northern and eastern frontiers turned out to be his trickiest assignment. The Syrians, echoed by Lebanon and Jordan, insisted that they would not agree to a cease-fire unless Israel first promised not to go through with its announced plan for drawing irrigation water from the Jordan River. Israel would make no such pledge. Stymied for days, Hammarskjold finally found a way through. Doubling back to Jerusalem, he made the point to Prime...
Shortly before the Chinese Communists seized Tibet, the Bhutan government closed its northern borders. But having no army or frontier guards, the Bhutanese were unable to prevent numbers of Tibetans from crossing into Bhutan. Many of these uninvited visitors turned out to be Chinese in Tibetan clothing. On the other side of the mountains, Red China is building a road toward Bhutan. To strengthen his government the King recently set up a Central Advisory Council composed of elders elected by tiny villages. Explained Jigme: "We have begun to sow a few seeds of democracy...
India's Prime Minister Nehru, mindful of northern frontiers with Red China, calls Bhutan's isolationism ostrichlike. No hand at joining democratic alliances himself, Nehru is annoyed at not having been able to ally Bhutan with India as closely as he has Nepal. A trickle of aid ($150,000 a year) flows into Bhutan from India, not enough for modern services and education, or realistic defense. But there are signs that modern progress may yet penetrate Bhutan. Said Mr. Jigme last week: "We can't remain a museum piece...
Bones & Lions. About 200 B.C. the Greek mathematician Eratosthenes ran a geometrical tape measure about the earth by estimating the distance between Syene in southern Egypt and Alexandria in northern Egypt.*Then he measured shadows cast by the sun in both places. This amounts to measuring an arc of the earth's surface and observing the altitude of the sun at both ends. The Army Map Service did the same thing, but the arc that it measured extended (5,777.5 nautical miles) from Finland to the southern end of Africa, more than one-quarter of the earth...
Pavilion with a View. Once at home again, Sesshu turned down the position of court painter to devote the rest of his life to painting in his Cloud Valley retreat and wandering through northern Kyushu, building landscape gardens, writing verse, and painting. When he happened on a particularly striking landscape, he built a "Pavilion of Heaven-Opening Picture," lingered there until he had exhausted the view...