Word: agra
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...presenting Admiral Gorshkov as a real tough guy, you write: "While his aides looked on aghast in Agra last week, he seized a thick, six-foot-long python in his strong hands and draped it over his shoulders." I am afraid you were misled by the photographer. Maybe the admiral is not so tough. The snake in the picture is the same one put on my shoulder just the other day by the Indian fellow who supplies it for 130 or one rupee...
...author of that threatening boast walked up to a snake charmer in the Indian city of Agra last week and, while his aides looked on aghast, seized a thick, six-foot-long python in his strong hands and draped it over his shoulders. Making a ten-day tour of India, the commander of the Russian navy was acting like the traditional sailor on shore leave. He viewed the Taj Mahal by moonlight, visited the Nehru Museum and the site where Mahatma Gandhi's body was cremated, and shopped for souvenirs. But Admiral Sergei Georgievich Gorshkov's trip to India...
...India that bristles with small flags, each representing a town where there has been serious unrest over the nation's growing food crisis. Every week brings more flags to the map: protest demonstrations in Bombay, a rampaging crowd in Rampur, looting of grain shops in Agra. India's Reds are busily preparing "mass agitation" to exploit the food shortage. Said Communist Party Chairman S. A. Dange: "A government that cannot feed the people should quit...
...well-and then did it all over again when Jackie discovered that her sister, Lee Radziwill, who was traveling with her, had fallen behind and missed the show. Sailing down the Ganges River on a marigold-decorated boat, Jackie inspected the burning and bathing ghats along the shore. In Agra she was "overwhelmed by a sense of awe" at the sight of the shimmering Taj Mahal in sun and moonlight. "I have seen pictures of the Taj," she said, "but for the first time I am struck with a sense of its mass and symmetry." The Indians, who crowded...
...during World War II in Delhi's Cecil Hotel, which he was saddened to learn has now been turned into a boys' school. Back on familiar ground, he looked up old friends, poked nostalgically about in Delhi's teeming streets and alleys, took his wife to Agra to see that uxorious monument, the Taj Mahal. Publisher Auer is on a round-the-world trip, and so far, he reports, he has found his way paved in TIME covers...