Word: calcuttas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...World of Apu (Edward Harrison) completes, in alternations of suffering and joy, one of the most vital and abundant movies ever made. Based on a bestselling Bengali novel by Bibhuti Bannerji, the picture was written, produced and directed as three separate pictures by a 39-year-old Calcutta film buff named Satyajit Ray (pronounced Sawt-yaw-jit Rye). Each of the three lasts about an hour and 45 minutes and stands as a separate and complete cinema experience in its own right. But the moviemaker intended his trilogy ultimately to be seen and judged as a single immense discursive epic...
...lost his father and left his mother in order to make himself a modern man. Part 3, called Apur Sansar (The World of Apu), begins with a slyly humorous description of how the young man (Soumitra Chatterjee) spends his can't-afford-salad days of bohemian genius in Calcutta's slums. Suddenly one day a college friend carts him off to a country wedding that has an unexpected and fateful conclusion. The bridegroom proves to be insane, and in order to save the bride (Sarmila Tagore*) from the curse that will fall upon...
Departing Sydney for Calcutta, Sir Edmund Hillary, New Zealand's cliff-hanger extraordinary, labeled his upcoming nine-month expedition "the most important of its kind ever to go to the Himalayas." Its prime purpose: to conduct physiological tests atop the world's fifth-highest peak, Mount Makalu, which the party of 18 hopes to mount without oxygen tanks. But getting most of the headlines so far was an expedition sideline: Hillary's quest for the Abominable Snowman. Although he suspects that the abomination is just a snow job, Hillary is toting a special, hypodermic-firing blunderbuss with...
...Rangoon last week Burmese customs men proudly reported their "biggest haul since 1952": the discovery of $31,000 in smuggled gold aboard the Dolpheverett, a Liberian-registered freighter operated by California's Everett-Orient Line. In Calcutta the Dolpheverett's sister ship Rutheverett is being confiscated outright by the Indian government. After a week-long search during which they all but dismantled the ship, Indian customs officers uncovered aboard the Rutheverett $700,000 worth of gold stashed away in hidey-holes ranging from the ship's garbage bin to secret compartments...
Once back in Hong Kong, the gold goes into the vaults of some 200 Chinese banks where it may be used for such delicate transactions as financing a shipment of Calcutta opium to Hong Kong or buying off Chinese Communist officials who have put the squeeze on the relatives of rich overseas Chinese businessmen. But the final market is most often India. Indian central bank officials estimate that India's private gold holdings exceed $3.6 billion (at the U.S. gold rate), up from $3.2 billion in 1948. The enormous trade in smuggled gold is a major reason India...