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...intense, Mrs. Gandhi is no spellbinder as a public speaker, but she nonetheless sways audiences. As Prime Minister, she has carried on her father's custom of holding frequent darshans-in Hindi, literally, "showing oneself-at which she appears on the lawn of her official home in New Delhi to accept petitions and listen to the problems of ordinary people. Like Father Jawaharlal, Mrs. Gandhi was educated in England. Like him also, she has little interest in small talk, suffers fools poorly, and governs imperiously-although she tends to delegate more business than he did. About the only time...
...crimped Mob business in Chicago. The gang-slaying theory was lent credence by a shadowy report that on hearing of the shooting, the Mafia's Boss of Bosses, New York's Carlo Gambino, promptly passed word that Giancana's killer was to be executed-again a frequent Mafia precaution after a major...
There certainly is a London look [June 2]. But I can't believe this is it. In my frequent trips to London-and believe me, I do a great deal of looking and buying-I am not aware of Mr. Skinner or his clothes. Certainly Savile Row has changed (much due to the inventiveness of Tommy Nutter), but "wrapover leisure jacket"-never...
Political assassination was frequent in highly civilized 8th century Spain. Most murders were committed by rival factions. So, too, in the Ottoman Empire, where assassination was used for political consolidation and transfer of power. When Sultan Murad III died in 1595 leaving 20 sons out of 47 surviving children, Murad's successor, Mohammed III, eliminated his competition by murdering his 19 brothers...
Gunfire Exchanges. Outside Saigon, the Communists also have problems. A Tass dispatch from South Viet Nam last week confirmed that there have been frequent exchanges of gunfire a few miles north of Saigon between Communist troops and holdout ARVN units. This last-ditch resistance is likely to be short-lived; one member of an anti-Communist army group, in a letter to his family in Saigon, conceded that "we know we have no chance of winning, but we will fight anyway...