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In India, Jackie rode a 35-year-old elephant named Bibi, shrank against Prime Minister Nehru in ladylike horror while watching a mongoose battle a cobra (see cut), saw a polo match and cleared jumps on a horse. Before she left, Air-India presented her with twin tiger cubs: the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign Relations: Benign Competition | 3/30/1962 | See Source »

Ev & Charlie. Jackie donned jodhpurs for a few jumps on a horse named Princess. Her ride was flawless, but an embarrassed Indian officer was thrown. Said the First Lady of her horse at ride's end: "She jumped like a bird." Jackie fed pandas and an elephant, watched a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Administration: Queen of America | 3/23/1962 | See Source »

Disturbed by the delay and the shortened itinerary-whatever its cause-U.S. Ambassador to India John Galbraith checked with the White House last week to find out what was going on. "Can't you just tell them," shouted John Kennedy over a weak transoceanic telephone hook up, "that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Matter of Health | 3/9/1962 | See Source »

he stalls above me like an elephant.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poetry in English: 1945-62 | 3/9/1962 | See Source »

What was it like out there! Explain all that to them, to these people who have scarcely ever left their valley; explain the Chinese and the Vietminh, the tall elephant grass of the Haute Region and the paddy-fields of the deltas, the mud and the dust, the fighting, the...

Author: By Michael W. Schwartz, | Title: What the French Army Needs: A Fighting Man's Ideology | 2/24/1962 | See Source »

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