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Staff Writer Pico Iyer, who wrote the stories on the Nehru dynasty and on the Sikhs, was born in England of Indian parents. He spent his vacation last summer traveling through India...
...heard about the west bank of the Susitna: rich, available farmland, with a marvelous view-on clear days-of Mount McKinley and the Alaska Range. There was a hitch: there were no roads into the area and no bridges. In winter you could walk across the frozen river; in summer you could take a boat. But during the spring breakup and the autumn freeze-up the only way you could cross the Susitna was to hire Bush Pilot Don Sheldon to fly you from Talkeetna on the eastern bank over to Old Homesteader Shorty Bradley's pasture...
They had filed for homesteads along an old mining road, about six miles from the river. All summer they chopped spruce and birch trees, pulled stumps, dug wells, fought off bears, baked bread and canned moose and porcupine meat. They planted a garden on a cleared acre of land lent by Shorty Bradley, who had trapped and hunted in the area off and on since 1939. Marino Sik cleared two acres and built a barn, and worked late into the cold autumn nights to finish a log lean-to for his trailer. He was sick of trying to work communally...
When the reckless Sanjay died in the crash of his stunt plane on a hot summer day four years ago, Rajiv became the crown prince. He quit his pilot's job, entered politics, and soon won his brother's parliamentary seat. Named a general secretary of the Congress (I) Party in February 1983, he made a reputation for himself as a quiet-spoken reformer determined to bring new life and leadership to a largely corrupt and ineffectual machine, leading some Indians to refer to him as Mr. Clean...
...Europe and Japan finally rebuilt their own wartorn economies, and as Vietnam drained some of the United States' own resources, the economic pie didn't expand nearly as rapidly as before. Allowing Blacks to eat at the same lunch counter in Kresge's just wasn't enough. The summer riots told us that social equality was too difficult to achieve, so we refused to bus our children. Ecology and a healthy economy are hopelessly opposed. America awoke from its ethereal trance, and recognized that there are no painless panaceas...