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...father, the late Sir Montagu S. D. Butler, became a governor of the Central Provinces, and was knighted for his services before going home to become a master of Cambridge's Pembroke College. His uncle, a close friend of Nehru's father, became governor of Burma. His Scottish mother was related to the great liberal economist Adam Smith. The eldest of four children, young Rab left Attock at the age of eight for boarding schools in England's west country. There, and later at Marlborough, one of the top public schools, Rab acquired,an early self-reliance...
...first Burmese work elephant reared from birth in captivity; 2) he was trained with kindness. Previous trainers captured grown elephants and tamed them to their tasks by breaking their spirits. Once past his prankish teens, Bandoola began racking up work records that made him famed in the Burma of the '20s, '30s and '40s. In one season, he extracted 300 tons of teak and pushed and dragged it an average distance of two miles from stump to floating stream...
Like all Burmese work elephants, Bandoola was mobilized in World War II and helped build the Burma Road. His end came suddenly and mysteriously. One day in 1945, Author Williams found him dead, with a 30-caliber bullet through his brain. To this day, he does not know Bandoola's killer, but he suspects that Po Toke, aged, ailing and unwilling to trust his beloved Bandoola to another oozie, fired the fatal shot...
...foray. The terrorists turned and fled, but their leader was shot in the throat. Captured alive he proved an important bag. He was Waruhiu Itote, alias "General China," the elusive desperado whose gangs have long dominated Mt. Kenya. An ex-railroad worker who was in the British army in Burma during World War II, "China"' is almost certainly the No. 2 man in the Mau Mau movement. No. 1 (and still at large): scar-faced Dedan Kimathi, who calls himself "General Russia...
...Joseph Johnson George, 44, chief of Eastern Air Lines' weather services, was named Deputy Chief of the U.S. Weather Bureau, a new job. World War II weather boss for the Army Air Forces in the China-Burma-India Theater, George is today the highest-ranking weatherman in the Air Force Reserve (rank: brigadier general). In his new job, he will boss reorganization of the Weather Bureau and improvement of forecasting techniques along lines he recommended a month ago while chairman of the Commerce Department's Advisory Committee on Weather Services...