Word: calcuttas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Into a squalid Calcutta tenement apartment six lives are crowded: a gentle, ineffectual bank clerk, his wife and their small son, his parents and his sister. Money is scarce, and the wife takes a job selling home appliances from door to door. The old couple are shocked by the idea of a woman working. The husband's pride, too, is wounded, but the bank fails and he must accept the fact that the wife is now the family's sole breadwinner. In the end, she quarrels with her employer and quits. Husband and wife join hands to find...
INDIA too is expecting an enormous turnout of tourists this year. And if they ever get beyond haggling with the marketplace throngs of Delhi and Calcutta, visitors can luxuriate in the Shangri-lalike valleys of Kashmir, where they can rent a houseboat for as little as $49 a week and drift about the placid, clear mountain lakes. For the more rugged visitor, Nepal has the Tigertops Hotel, which offers its guests an elephant-back excursion through the jungles. For the athletic, there is a $300-a-week hiking trip through tiny Buddhist villages, across flower-carpeted Himalayan meadows...
Today's CRIMSON Supplement includes articles on Asia by three of this year's Nieman Fellows -- newsmen studying for a year at Harvard. They are Hiranmay Karlekar, of the Hindustan Standard, Calcutta, India; Bank hyun Lim, of the Chongro-ku, Seoul, Korea, and Satoshi Ogawa, of the Sankei Shimbun, Tokyo, Japan...
While her opponents danced in the streets of Bombay, threw confetti in Calcutta, and held victory parades in Madras, Indira Gandhi retreated into the seclusion of her modest New Delhi bungalow. There was ample reason for gloom. The Congress Party, which has ruled India for 20 years and won elections with clocklike regularity, suffered setbacks in India's fourth general elections that far exceeded even the most pessimistic predictions and imperiled Indira's chances of continuing as Prime Minister...
...India: the Davis Cup interzone finals, beating Brazil, 3-2, at Calcutta's South Club. After beating the U.S. last month, Brazil's Edison Mandarine, 25, and Thomaz Koch, 21, might have expected to wipe up the court with the Indians. That expectation reckoned without Ramanathan Krishnan, 29. Krishnan won one singles match from Mandarine, teamed with Jaideep Mukherjea to take the doubles, and wrapped it up in a marathon match against Koch 3-6, 6-4, 10-12, 7-5, 6-2. That gives India the honor of challenging Australia on Dec. 26-and then returning home...