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Starvation, squalor, teeming restlessness and ill-concealed resentment haunt the alleys and byways of refugee-swollen Calcutta, India's biggest (pop. circa 7,000,000) and most turbulent city. There last week, in greater numbers than ever, hysterically cheering Indians turned out to greet the touring missionaries of Muscovite good will, bulletheaded Communist Party Chief Nikita Khrushchev and his straight man, Soviet Premier Bulganin. Streets along the line of entry were scrubbed and decorated with triumphal arches; the city's swarming sacred cows had been driven into back alleys, and red flags fluttered on every side...
...last year, charging that neither Sir Edmund Hillary nor his famed Sherpa Guide Tenzing ever set foot atop Mount Everest, but had actually turned back 800 feet from the summit. Chuckled Everest's Co-conqueror Hillary: "The man is making a bit of a goat of himself." In Calcutta last week, Author Goswami, deeply affronted, butted back at Sir Edmund with a 100,000 rupee ($20,000) libel and slander suit. Back home in New Zealand, where he is now planning an Antarctic expedition, part-time Beekeeper Hillary looked up from maps to chortle again: "I think...
Less than a week later, Club President Doyle received a phone call from West Springfield, Mass. Charles Helmar, a carpet factory worker and Springfield public links champion, wanted to explain that he had been Roberts' partner in the Deepdale Calcutta. He had used the name Vitali, said Helmar, because Roberts had said that his partner Vitali was sick and the stunt would do no harm. Roberts had offered Helmar $100 for playing along and had never paid. Both of them, said Helmar, were actually three-handicap golfers...
...last September Deepdale organized a "Calcutta"* competition. Amateur sportsmen not averse to gambling $1,000 or so on a friendly game of golf scrabbled for invitations. Among them was Richard L. Armstrong, a Manhasset (N.Y.) investor and member of the nearby Sands Point Club. At a tournament dinner before the teams teed off, Armstrong just happened to be seated at the same table with a pair of visiting golfers named William Roberts and Richard Vitali. Roberts, who claimed a 17-stroke handicap (along with his partner's 18), seemed strangely confident. No one knew anything about him, but there...
...telephone. The printer will take care of the rest of the job." But thousands of manuscripts may cross his desk each year. The editor must have a working knowledge of a wide range of fields--from the kitchen or the horse-show to details of life in Paris or Calcutta. He must be able to help the author with suggestions. And more important, from his company's point of view, he must constantly seek new talent and encourage established writers. "An editor who doesn't find writers and manuscripts," one publisher commented, "is not an editor, but just a reader...