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...months had Calcutta's drowsy Government Book Depot, which handles the dreariest of official publications, experienced such a brisk burst of activity. No sooner had the first 500 copies of the central government's Act to Suppress Immoral Traffic arrived than a flood of customers snapped them up. The act, designed to outlaw brothels and subject pimps to severe punishments, was passed in 1956; but Parliament delayed enforcement so that India's prostitutes could find other ways to make a living and state governments would have time (though few bothered) to build "rehabilitation homes." Last week, just...
...have staggered the earnest searcher for a low-rate bank loan. Free Scotch and fast talk was all it took to con a crew of well-heeled high rollers into coughing up $266,000 worth of bets. For his cash, each gambler was buying a crack golfer in the "Calcutta" auction before the Desert Inn's sixth annual Tournament of Champions. The man who owned the winner would get a whopping $95,760 share of the pot; even a lowly seventh-place finisher would bring his backer $11,970. For the 22 golfers there was another $40.000 in prizes...
...steadily away at par. When he finished the round, Leonard had a total of 275, lowest in tournament history. Casper had 276. That one stroke difference earned Vancouver, B.C. Veteran Leonard 10,000 silver dollars; it brought an $84,260 profit to California's Carl Anderson, the veteran Calcutta player who had bought...
...corruption, epitomized in the public mind by the insurance scandal that led to the ouster of ex-Finance Minister T. T. Krishnamachari (TIME, March 3). In Delhi, another longtime Congress Party stronghold. Congress candidates last month won only 31 out of 80 Municipal Corporation seats. Three weeks ago in Calcutta, Siddhartha Ray, a bright young Congress Party minister in the West Bengal state government, resigned office with the angry charge that "the people who control the West Bengal Congress today [are] an unscrupulous section of rich industrialists, traders and businessmen-the privileged class of modern India...
...almost every major capital of the free world could sympathize with Jock Whitney's predicament. Reason: foreign antagonism to the U.S. Secretary of State, long serious but diffuse, is becoming more and more a concentrated and measurable factor in world affairs. "Damned Dulles!" swore an Indian lawyer in Calcutta last week. "He is responsible for the tensions of the world! He is not allowing the Americans to come to terms with the Russians!" Added a high French Cabinet minister in Paris: "This man thinks like a theologian. Eisenhower is the mystic. Dulles is the theologian. He is against...