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On Barking. A more successful part of Khrushchev's trip was to make clear that the Soviet Union is not abdicating its influence in Asia to Peking. The Soviet leader attended a New Delhi ceremony at which his government extended $378 million credits to the Indians, and later he...
¶ In Burma, a luxury hotel twelve miles outside Rangoon has become a white elephant because it has no air conditioning and is too far out of town for the Western travelers for whom it was designed.
Johns Hopkins File 7 (ABC, 12 noon-12:30 p.m.). How did the Aztec and Maya Indians - who almost surely never saw an elephant - come to put the big beasts in their art and writings? Johns Hopkins Geographer George Carter tackles the intriguing question in Elephants Are Where You Find...
For the jaded, well-heeled tourist who has been everywhere, Kenya has something new in jungle sumptuousness. When his jet plane touches down in Nairobi, he is met by a brace of Rolls-Royces with zebra-skin upholstery. The cars whisk 125 miles north across Kikuyu country and draw up...
Among the finest items: a bronze ritual vessel from China in the form of a rhinoceros, dating from the 12th century B.C.; a Mogul miniature painting of Krishna, tense as a strung bow, awaiting his beloved; and a fantastic carpet from 17th century Lahore (see color). The carpet begins at...