Word: warriorism
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...Sikhs ever born in Boston, 22-year-old Walter Israel NeHalsingh speaks English with a Back Bay accent and has dropped many of his warrior caste's ancient ways. Walter's India-born father is a Harvard man, and Walter is a graduate of Tufts. It seemed only logical to cease wearing kachh (pants cut off at the knee), kara (iron bangles on the wrist) and a kirpan (a small dagger). But Walter has always observed two of the five "Ks" dictated by his religion: he wears kes (unshorn hair) and carries a khanga (a ceremonial comb...
...hair 37 inches long. Sikhs serving in British forces wear their hair in turbans, but Private NeHalsingh wears his locks in a horsetail down his back-an arrangement which enables him to get a steel helmet over his head. Nobody laughs. Said Sergeant John J. Quigley last week of Warrior NeHalsingh: "A good soldier if I ever...
...rounding into the stretch, Britain's aged Prime Minister Winston Churchill last week entered his 79th year enthusiastically agallop on all his old hobbies. Unlike his gelding Non-Stop, which won only second place in the races at Kempton Park on the eve of his birthday, the Old Warrior himself spent the week in top form, smiting parliamentary enemies with one hand and holding the shredded remnants of a vanished empire together with the other. He did admit that several American admirers had been sending him rejuvenating pills, but "I don't take them," he said. "Think...
...little dull. He applied for a return to combat duty to round out the normal Korean tour of 100 missions, because "I just wanna go out and do some more shootin'." Last week, in the comfort of his home at Scott Air Force Base in Illinois, the happy warrior posed with his not-so-happy family. The Air Force had granted his request for more combat. His wife, said Jabara, was not enthusiastic, "but she leaves those things...
...Zulu Warrior (Josef Marais, Miranda, Mitch Miller; Columbia). Lots of drums, a chanting chorus, a few words in English (more in Bantu) and, eventually, some horns make this a nice novelty...