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...story of the death and funeral of Gandhi, however, is best read after a glance south from Delhi, to the place where stands a monument, the Taj Mahal, to another dead Indian. The great Shah Jehan built it to immortalize the memory of his empress' beauty. It is man's most eloquent effort to deny that the body and its beauty dies. It is a triumph of the mortician's art. Some may try to raise a Taj to Gandhi (the prettifiers will scarcely be able to stand statues of that ugly body). But Gandhi...
...pink azaleas, baby spots playing on the potted plants, a hamburger stand and an ice cream stand, champagne ("all French") in five-foot jeroboams, Moscow Mules* in copper souvenir cups. After breakfast (4 a.m.) Ginny hauled off her hoopskirt ("icy white satin . . . after a Winterhalter portrait of the Empress Eugénie") and fell into...
...operated) Saturnia 19,637 1,600 Vulcania 24,469 1,600 SPAIN Magallanes 9,689 550 Marques de Comillas 9,922 550 Habana 8,279 100 POLAND Batory 14,287 832 Sobieski 10,030 766 NORWAY Stavangerfjord 13,156 750 GREECE Nea Hellas 16,991 1,450 CANADA Empress of Canada...
Died. Victor Alexander George Robert Bulwer-Lytton, second Earl of Lytton, 71, diplomat, grandson of Novelist Bulwer-Lytton (The Last Days of Pompeii); of a heart attack; in Knebworth, Hertfordshire, England. Lord Lytton, whose father as Viceroy proclaimed Queen Victoria Empress of India, was Viceroy himself for four months in 1925 and headed the League of Nations' futile 1932 peace mission to Manchuria...
...first time the Hi valley has seen strange flags. Soldiers of Czarist Russia moved into the fertile Ili in the middle 1870s. The Manchu Dowager Empress, in one of her few feats of diplomacy, persuaded them to depart...