Word: pakistani
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shrines, swept him into ceremonials of such splendor as no Westerner before had ever experienced. It was a wonder that a man of 69, with his medical history, could withstand the exhausting torrents of pomp and tumult ("He's got the stamina of a Karachi camel," said one Pakistani); but Ike, who had seen nothing like it in his whole career, was buoyed up by his own delight and astonishment...
...unruly exuberance. Down the freshly cleaned streets they drove, past prairies of rubble still redolent with the smell of refugees, even though special squads had worked all night to deodorize the area with scented water and citronella (the refugees had been settled elsewhere), on through the jumbled slums where Pakistani women, their pastel veils and head scarves fluttering in the sun, watched from roof tops. At Victoria Road, the two Presidents switched to a stately carriage drawn by six handsome horses. Under a gold-trimmed, brocaded red sun umbrella, Ike sat and waved, raised his hands to the crowds...
...photographers-and Ike, for that matter-had not seen anything yet. In a day and a half of Pakistani hospitality, he attended a society matron's dream of a dinner party (held under two huge, orange-and-black-striped tents that were floored with rich Oriental rugs), heard the eerie caterwauling of pipes played by a countermarching military regiment, watched Pathan tribesmen from the northwest frontier as they danced in wild, hair-tossing abandon, observed part of an Australian-Pakistani cricket match, marveled at an exhibition of tent-pegging (in which shrieking horsemen galloped full speed at tent pegs...
...pilot project including representatives of four religions has been set up this Fall. A Brahmin Hindu from India, a Burmese Buddhist who has lectured at the New International Center of Buddhistic Studies, a Pakistani Buddhist monk, and an American Christian participate in the program...
Last week in the growing cordiality between Pakistan's President Ayub Khan and Nehru, Indians became Indians once more, even in Pakistan. The request came straight from Ayub. Bombay's Free Press Journal responded gratefully: "This change of attitude of the Pakistani press is welcome in India that WAS Bharat...