Word: poona
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Author Buck shows, David has come a degree closer to a solution than his father did. But as the years pass, David, too, begins to shrink in stature. His Poona mission station grows so famed that it loses its Christian simplicity, and becomes to David what railroads became to his father. David dreads Indian independence. If the British raj is booted out, who will protect his lifework from destruction? It is now his turn to be horrified when his devout son Ted walks out on his father's seminary and goes to live among Indians in a village...
Last week, escorted by their two chaperons, the seven boys and four girls took off from Manhattan by air for Bombay. For the next two months they will visit universities and live in student hostels at Poona, Madras, Mysore and Travancore. There they will explain U.S. democracy to their Indian colleagues. "Some of us will soon have to do military service," said Mormon David Lund, 21 (who won $120 on a radio quiz show to help finance his trip). "It struck us that here we are ready to go to Korea and fight, but that right...