Field notes, v1753
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Stubbs, R. 1963 Asian Trip 60 New Delhi Jan. 16 when life is hard, a tired person will have little incentive to explore his environment in the scientific sense. He may have little energy left to carry enthusiasm. Tal felt the thing to do is to test out our Nat'l Sci. Found.'guidelines'proposal in a limited area first. He then showed me about the Institute. They have closed circuit T.V., projection equipment, sound recording equipment. I saw posters and charts in progress. He showed me a wooden box with sloping glass plate a device so arranged that two pictures could be flashed, one after the other. The demonstrated box had picture scenes of family planning. One scene was of a well furnished home, the parents with leisure - the father reading, the mother sewing and two children playing. The second was of a run down room, the father dozing before tired from work, the mother was ironing and 3 or 4 ragged children were fighting. I asked about the Chinese aggression. It is referred to here as 'cartographic agression'. About 50 years ago the Chinese moved into the Tibetan plateau country N of the Himalayas. This area had long been illly defined as to whether it belonged