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...Shirley Temple Show (NBC, 7-8 p.m.). "The Black Sheep," based on the early chapters of Rudyard Kipling's autobiography, Something of Myself. Color...
...might now be made on the bitterest dispute of all: Kashmir, where since 1949 Indian and Pakistan armies have faced each other across a U.N.-drawn crossfire line. The treaty signing over, Pakistan's President Mohammed Ayub Khan took his guest to the summer lodge at Murree, overlooking Rudyard Kipling's storied mountain city of Rawalpindi. For two days, as 70-year-old Nehru gradually perked up from the aftereffects of a recent cholera shot and a tooth extraction, the two British-educated leaders walked in the pine-fringed garden and delicately explored their differences. It was, said...
...Shirley Temple Show (NBC, 7-8 p.m.). Rudyard Kipling's Kim with Michael Rennie as Captain Creighton and Tony Haig...
...ruined his chances by making a speech on the merits of mistresses for M.P.s. By borrowing right and left, Harris managed to buy a literary weekly, the Saturday Review, tossed out its old staff, and before long had a roster of contributors including Shaw, H. G. Wells, Thomas Hardy, Rudyard Kipling...
Haze of Heat. The land is vast and cruel, running some 2,000 miles from the icy peaks of the Himalayas, in the heart of central Asia, down to the steaming jungles of Cape Comorin, on the Indian Ocean. In summer, wrote Rudyard Kipling, there is "neither sky, sun, nor horizon. Nothing but a brown-purple haze of heat. It is as though the earth were dying of apoplexy." During this furnace season, millions of Indian villagers lie gasping in their mud huts; wells dry up and fields blow away. When the monsoon rains come in the fall, the torrential...