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TORCH-LIGHTING at Delhi's Red Fort opens the Asiad in Olympic style. Magnifying glass failed, match did it.
INDIA STAGES FIRST "ASIAD"
In sports, Orient goes Western
Asia, which has difficulty in deciding what it likes and dislikes about the West, revealed last month that in sports at least it has gone enthusiastically Western. In New Delhi, India's Nehru, who once played cricket at Harrow, was host to 10 visiting teams (p. 64) at the first "Asiad" The Oriental Olympics turned out to be almost a carbon copy of the Olympic Games from the opening torch-lighting ceremony to the choosing of a muscle-bound Mr. Asia (p. 66). Although a few Britons from Singapore competed, it was an Asiad for Asiatics. By all odds the most spectacular-looking athletes were India's long-haired Sikhs (right). But the best were the Japanese. Even without their swimmers, who stayed home to train for the regular Olympics, the Japanese won the games with 130 points, 35 more than second-place India.
THREE WINNERS of l0,000-meter race, topped by Japan’s Tamoi Soichi, get a hand from Maharaja of Patiala, president of the Asian Games Federation.
A QUI CK SIKH, Gurbachan Singh, with hair tied in topknot, leads a teammate in 10,000-meter run in Delhi's new 30,000-seat stadium. He came in third.
NONCOMPETITORS but nonetheless vital were the Indian women (below) who carried fine gravel to restore jumping pits' resiliency after a day's use.
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