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...infiltration routes," Indians in battalion strength crossed the cease-fire line and occupied a series of abandoned Pakistani outposts. There was a pause of some days, presumably to test the Pakistani reaction. When nothing happened, the Indians moved forward two weeks ago in regimental and brigade strength. Two Pakistani hilltop positions were stormed at dawn. In the Punch-Uri sector, the Indians advanced 25 miles into Pakistani territory. A large salient in the 1949 U.N. cease-fire line that bulged toward Srinagar was swiftly erased, and India announced that the occupied ground was now Indian, as were...
...Queen Anne-Marie's 19th birthday, and King Constantine, 25, celebrated it with her and seven-week-old Princess Alexia at his rambling hilltop villa on the western island of Corfu. Then he had to leave the party and fly back to his Athens palace for yet another attempt to resolve the seven-week-old parliamentary crisis...
Giant scrapers last week clawed at a Los Angeles hilltop where a 500-room Sheraton hotel will soon rise. Half a world away, turbaned Moslems naked to the waist poured concrete foundations for Intercontinental Hotels in Lahore and Rawalpindi, Pakistan. In St. Paul, the framework for a 24-story Hilton climbed skyward, while in New Haven, Conn., and Montreal, workmen were busy building locally financed hotels. These far-flung structures are the creations of one architect: balding, cherubic William Benjamin Tabler, 50, who has become the world's busiest designer of big hotels, including the new Hiltons in Manhattan...
...Harry Pearson, the girls "take great pleasure in tweaking the noses of the middle classes." To celebrate the 700th anniversary of the birth of Dante (see BOOKS) this spring, the girls donned costumes and reconstructed the campus according to the Divine Comedy-Hell was the college dump, Heaven a hilltop garden. Men at nearby colleges are prone to gossip about Bennington students as "rather bohemian girls of a sexually compliant nature," which sometimes leads the girls to answer requests for dates with an icy "I have a paper...
...Guadalupe River, the site is crisscrossed with streams, verdant with cypress, oak, pecan and cottonwood. Kerr County has long been a ranching center, and the resort houses often retain the ranch-house look, but with a difference: one Houston millionaire has installed an indoor heated swimming pool in his hilltop home. For dedicated huntsmen who cannot find the time to take African safaris, there is the 115-sq. mi. Y.O. Ranch. Owner Charles Schreiner III has stocked it with imported game from all over the world: deer from Japan, aoudad rams from North Africa, antelope from India, Corsican rams...