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...Dandy John Aspinall grew so fond of Eddy that in 1959 he threw a $15.000 party for him in a Belgrave Square mansion decked out to resemble the Hanging Gardens of Babylon. Among the 150 guests were such notable continental play people as Linda Christian and the Maharajah of Jaipur. Sighed Aspinall last week: "Eddy is the most generous man I know. I'm most upset to see him in his preset position...
...Then at Jaipur, the First Lady was expected to throw a coin from her own country into a silver pot. Galbraith, said the columnist, had not informed Mrs. Kennedy of the local superstitions and was even caught without an American coin. Touring newswomen provided a quarter...
...Swatantra Party, which campaigned for free enterprise and was slandered as "fascist" by Nehru, won more state legislature seats (159) than any other party, but its strength was largely limited to three conservative states, Bihar, Gujerat and Rajasthan, where the beauteous Maharani of Jaipur defeated the Congress Party candidate in the election's biggest victory. The party was beaten in all major cities, stands third in Parliament with 18 seats. The Swatantra's plucky leader Chakravarti Rajagopalachari, called it a rout, but asked his supporters for the "patience and grit" to rally again...
...says India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, and in the final days of the campaign, there was plenty of evidence to support him. In Uttar Pradesh, four people were shot dead in riots; in Kashmir, candidates opposed to the government claimed they were kidnaped by police. In Jaipur, where the Maharani of Jaipur was running against the Congress Party machine under her maiden name. Gayatri Devi, local politicos found another Gayatri Devi to run against her as an independent in order to split her vote. At a New Delhi rally, an onlooker hurled a shoe at a poet reciting...
India's leftists accuse Swatantra of be ing "feudal'' and "socially backward" because it is supported by a clutch of princes and princesses, most notable of whom is the beauteous Maharani of Jaipur, who is Swatantra Party boss in Rajasthan (TIME, Nov. 10). Ignored is the fact that there are more princes and zamindars (feudal landlords) in Congress than in the Swatantra. Despite the cry that Swatantra is the "millionaires' party," C.R. has been generally unsuccessful in attracting financial support from India's richest corporations. Right-wing businessmen instead contribute generously to Congress, for obvious...