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...happy to be in Nazareth, the cradle of Christianity," he told his audience of Moslems and Jews. "If I had to buy a town, it would be Nazareth." His manner was a winning confection of good will and grandeur-like a maharajah at a mahouts' outing. His new friends in Israel and Japan called him "a nice gentle guest" and "a tough dandy." Back home, his old friends were only left to wonder: Who is this prince of charity, this prophet of peace, this generous, sober, chaste diplomat, this new Frank Sinatra...
...health?" Not bothering to pause very long for an answer, Kennedy continued: "And if this keeps on much longer, it's going to be a matter of my health too." Galbraith, who issued the original invitation last November, had to change signals diplomatically all around India. The Maharajah of Mysore, for example, stopped the training of an elephant that was to put a garland of flowers around the First Lady's neck with its trunk. Back to their stalls went the maharajah's performing horses...
...through strange cities and into questionable hotels. They also get to see a big piece of the world. Holland-American Line's Rotterdam, for example, is now steaming around the world on an 80-day trip that will include a tiger shikar at the jungle estates of the Maharajah of Cooch Behar in the foothills of the Himalayas, a tour of Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan, side trips to Galle in Ceylon and Addis Ababa in Ethiopia. The fare...
...world. For weeks Indian soothsayers had been predicting floods, earthquakes and several other forms of calamity (TIME, Jan. 19). Some of the doomsayers saw only two days of danger; some warned that the world could not relax for five nervous years. In Sikkim, the scheduled marriage of the maharajah's son to New York Post-Debutante Hope Cooke was put off until 1963. The ill-omened year 1962, said the royal astrologers, was no time for a princely wedding...
...time of independence, the Hindu Maharajah of Kashmir opted to go to India rather than Pakistan, even though the province was 76% Moslem. His action precipitated a bloody war between Hindus and Moslems. Nehru first promised the state a plebiscite, then reneged. The two countries now maintain a troubled peace along a U.N.-drawn cease-fire line in the divided province. Nehru has three times ignored U.N. resolutions calling for a plebiscite in Kashmir...