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...population. In London districts marked by proper English names such as Blenheim Crescent or Henry Dickens Court, the air reeks with curry and saris crowd the pavements, while other alleys are lined with Moslem butcher shops, Urdu movie houses, West Indian fish stands and Sikh temples. Behind the seamy house-fronts, brightened, Caribbean-style, with mauve, yellow and blue paint, crowded weekend beer parties set the nights alive with calypso melodies, steel drums, and some nasty fights...
...close, faint clanking noises were still heard from 16 cars-some from Europeans desperately attempting repairs. They shouldn't have bothered. In twelve years, no non-African has ever won, and the record may forever be intact. Last week's winners came close to denting it: two Sikh brothers named Joginder and Jaswant Singh, in their secondhand Swedish Volvo with 50,000 miles on the odometer. Of course, they have lived all their lives in Nairobi. When they coasted cozily home, the swinging Singhs were hoisted onto the roof of their car and paraded through the streets...
...beyond India's borders, and then only to neighboring Nepal. In a nation so divided by religion, language and regionalism, his great strength is his ability to bring people together. When a volatile language dispute broke out in Assam, Lal Bahadur quietly worked out a settlement. When the Sikhs campaigned for a separate state, Shastri was able to talk the Sikh leader out of a planned fast unto death. "I listen to different viewpoints. I have the capacity to understand them. I keep an open mind." As Home Minister, he noted: "Although I am a mediocre, yet I find...
Snelling and Snelling has placed men in jobs as far away as Bangkok (for a transportation study), now has offers for jobs in labor-short West Germany. It sometimes places foreigners in U.S. jobs, found an electrical engineer's berth for a Sikh after he was turned down by 15 companies because of his beard and turban. Such applications have led the brothers to plan overseas offices. They recognize that the new American mobility is beginning to flow over national borders almost as easily as it does across state lines...
Fireworks Next. In any case, Katangese soldiers at a golf course on the outskirts of Elisabethville took the occasion to shoot down an unarmed U.N. helicopter moving overhead. They stoned the six surviving crewmen, pummeled them with rifle butts; a 23-year-old Sikh lieutenant, who lay helpless with a machine gun slug in the abdomen, died unattended in three hours. Indian Brigadier Reginald Noronha, commander of U.N. troops in Katanga's capital, was furious. "This is the last time," he said. "Next time there are going to be fireworks...