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...Girl." The father's wish seemed fittingly fulfilled last week. Into the oak-paneled central hall of New Delhi's Parliament House?where Nehru himself had guided India's fate for 17 years?glided a hauntingly attractive woman, her black hair streaked with grey, her brown eyes moist and mellow. On her brown shawl she wore a rosebud, just as Nehru had always worn one as his talisman of grace and hope in a sometimes graceless and hopeless land. Her hands held palm to palm in the traditional Indian greeting of namaste, she approached former Finance Minister Morarji Desai. "Will...
...legitimate theaters, plus a selection of chic new "theater clubs," exclusive establishments where the up-and-coming young businessman can be seen while he watches the show. Scores of elegant new restaurants and bars have opened in the past few years, and they are always packed to their polished oak rafters with an ever expanding jet set, whom Spaniards call hi-lifers (pronounced hee-leefairs). Grandest of all is a converted palace in old Madrid, where, under 18th century tapestries and paintings of the court, diners are offered the specialty of the house: a whole chicken baked in clay, Roman...
...sessions have become legendary. They begin at 9 a.m., usually last well past midnight, with an hour's break for lunch. No smoking is permitted, no water provided. The only concession to mortal weakness is a small silver tray of fruit candy at each place around the long oak conference table. But as the day wears on, one minister after another will catch Franco's eye, get his nodded permission to be excused, and tiptoe out of the room for a cigarette or a trip to the men's room. Franco himself never stirs...
Sometimes he certainly acted crazy. Like the day he stood talking earnestly to an oak tree, which he mistook for the King of Prussia. Or during the last years before his death in 1820, when he was shut up in Windsor Castle telling stories, laughing and crying, with a kingdom full of imaginary friends. Besides, he had acted pretty irrationally toward his American colonies. So, on evidence, historians have always believed that Britain's King George III was insane. Now two London psychiatrists have gone back over the medical records, including some still unpublished, and concluded that the historians...
...when the Grepos found a 13-year-old girl, trying to reach her parents in West Berlin, hidden in their car. Also detained by the Reds ever since Nov. 24, on suspicion of "aiding flight from the Republic," was Mary Helen Battle, 25, a West Berlin theology student from Oak Ridge, Tenn...