Word: calcuttas
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...true last March when she married Sikkim's Crown Prince Palden Thondup Namgyal in a now-legendary ceremony at the capital city of Gangtok (TIME, March 23). Last week, when the crown prince's 70-year-old father, Maharajah Sir Tashi Namgyal, died of cancer in a Calcutta nursing home, Hope and her husband mounted the throne of the mountain-locked Himala yan kingdom. The formal coronation will take place after one year's mourning, the precise date to be calculated by the court astrologers...
...Feather Club outside Kansas City, the newest fad is a "tower shoot"; hunters form a circle around a 30-ft. tower and pheasants are released, one at a time, from the tower. Some of the birds are banded in different colors, and the hunters contribute to a Calcutta-type pool. Everybody blasts away; a gold band wins 50% of the pool, red gets 30% , blue 20% -black buys the drinks. Other owners let hunters shoot animals from moving jeeps or set out salt licks to lure deer within easy range...
...Daughters juxtaposes two seperate genre films about small-town Indian girls. The first film is frankly sentimental, but should appeal to anyone not embarassed by sentimentality. It describes the relationship between a young, orphaned servant girl and her master, a Calcutta postmaster assigned reluctantly to her provincial village. They become increasing close, and when, actually uncomfortable with the town, he returns to Calcutta, he leaves her heartbroken and finds his own emotions unexpectedly mixed. Director Santyajit Ray's scenes are always well-composed and seldom ostentatious, but I wish he would not use effects so crude as the violent thunderstorm...
...second film begins comically, but without subtlety or surprises, and sustains its humor as the story grows stronger and more absorbing; it deals with a student who comes home from Calcutta to find that his mother has decided that he should marry. He dislikes the girl she chooses and she dislikes his own choice, a wild, semi-literate tomboy. He marries the tomboy, who feels trapped and sneaks out on their wedding night to feed her pet squirrel. Bewildered and annoyed, the student goes back to Calcutta, telling her to write if she wants him. She mopes until she realizes...
...major leftist target was India's agreement to permit Voice of America broadcasts for three hours daily over a transmitter to be built by the U.S. in Calcutta, and Nehru is now trying to back out of it. Another target: the joint air defense exercises that the Indian air force will soon hold with the U.S. and British air commands. In an effort to silence his leftist critics. Nehru has won extensive promises from Russia and its satellites for missiles, fighters, and small arms. Top government officials expect little in substance from Soviet aid promises, but insist that...