Word: mahal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...four-day India visit, Dwight Eisenhower will go to Agra to see the moonlit mirage of the 17th century Taj Mahal; in New Delhi, he will sleep in another reminder of India's past-the gigantic pink sandstone President's House, which used to be the palace of the British Viceroy. Today's India prefers different monuments: bustling factories that turn out locomotives and toothbrushes, diesel engines and radio sets. For all its look of the past, the ambitious young republic is forging ahead in atomic energy, quadrupling its steel capacity in a few years' time...
...Turkey, Pakistan and Soviet-influenced Afghanistan (see map) the President will fly into New Delhi for five days of talks with Nehru and his advisers, for the opening of the U.S. exhibit, and a "very major" foreign policy speech (also for some sightseeing, including Agra's matchless Taj Mahal...
...their younger colleagues and epigoni contribute a number of exciting works themselves. Perhaps the most well-known of the new buildings, Edward Stone's vibrant New Delhi Embassy, deserves top honors for its succinct and artistic suggestion of the filigree of India's most well-known monument, the Taj Mahal. A surprise in this exhibition is provided by the exciting and imaginative project of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill for the Banque Lambert in Brussels. So ingenious is its form of detail and so striking its balancing of the major areas that one feels sure that it will greatly influence...
...ranch house with a central viewing corridor so that visitors can see the shiny new furnishings. Soviet propaganda had been telling Russians in advance that the ranch house they would see at the U.S. exhibition was no more typical of workers' homes in the U.S. than the Taj Mahal was typical in India or Buckingham Palace in Britain...
...possibly be "typical" or, for that matter, be bought for a mere $13,000. Then Tass's editors showed what they really thought of the splitnik: "There is no more truth in showing this as the typical home of the American worker than, say, in showing the Taj Mahal as the typical home of a Bombay textile worker or Buckingham Palace as the typical home of the English miner." Furthermore, added Tass, with its mind on what such furniture might cost in Moscow's GUM-if it were ever available there-Macy's was guilty of "propaganda...