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"An elephant trapped in quicksand" is the way Indira Gandhi sometimes describes her ruling Congress Party. During the past few years, the party's dismal performance makes that description seem particularly apt. Indian voters have turned against the once all-powerful Congress Party. In the 1967 state elections, for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India: More Troubles for Indira | 7/25/1969 | See Source »

Last week, as the G.O.P. adopted a new, stolid-looking elephant silhouette as a party symbol to convey strength, Nixon again allowed himself to be put into a posture of vacillation and weakness. The issue, in isolation, was hardly a major one -the appointment of an Assistant Secretary for Health...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE CURIOUS CASE OF DR. KNOWLES | 7/4/1969 | See Source »

I thought the Essay was slightly less penetrating than the mouse that attempted to fertilize the elephant.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 27, 1969 | 6/27/1969 | See Source »

ANIMAL WORLD (CBS, 7:30-8 p.m.). Host Bill Burrud discusses such threatened African species as the elephant, giraffe, cheetah, lion and leopard.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: May 30, 1969 | 5/30/1969 | See Source »

Mr. Ronson Lighter. The imaginative leap from adolescent affluence and argot to a perception of teen-age attitudes is what gives Absolute Beginners its moral energy. The novel would be no more than a cheerful nature walk from the Elephant and Castle to Notting Hill if Maclnnes did not see...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Epistle to the Mugs | 5/16/1969 | See Source »

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