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...turned the most important party bosses against her. Powerful Railways Minister S. K. Patil was upset over the elevation of Chavan, a rival in Bombay politics. Patil is one of the three kingmakers who comprise the "Syndicate" that has often controlled Congress Party appointments. The other two-West Bengal Politico Atulya Ghosh and Transportation Minister Sanjiva Reddy-were also upset by Indira's sudden show of independence. If they are still angry about it after next February's national elections, they just might try to edge the proud lady Prime Minister quietly...
...Reita Faria, 23. The new Miss World isn't especially interested in the title. Collecting her $7,000 prize money, she waved away the usual lucrative year of personal-appearance and film offers, prepared to rush home instead to finish her studies, become a gynecologist and marry a Bengal tea planter...
MUTUAL OF OMAHA'S WILD KINGDOM (NBC, 5-5:30 p.m.). Host Marlin Perkins tracks deep into Indian jungles for his film, "The Tigers of Sariska," starring a Bengal tigress and her two cubs...
...trade between the two countries has not been resumed. Denied access to Pakistani suppliers, Calcutta's jute mills have been forced to reduce output 25% , while some Dacca cigarette factories have closed down completely because no tobacco is being imported from West Bengal. Travel between the two countries is almost nonexistent, postal and telegraph communications operate far below standard, and rail, road and river traffic is severely curtailed in both nations. India and Pakistan may not be actively at war, but they are not at peace either...
This collaborative childhood autobiography evokes dreamy days in a sprawling house in East Bengal, where the Goddens' father was a steamship agent, and where, as petted and pampered little memsahibs, they had syces to care for their pony, dirzees to whip them up frilly frocks, ayahs and bearers to care for them. But the sisters were perceptive little girls, and if life was mostly a carefree and sheltered idyll, there was also an awareness of spuming life outside their garden wall. They recall with remarkable clarity the sights and sounds of the bazaars, of steamer trips through the river...