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...Moonlight Flit. Brian Seaton is the elder brother of Saturday Night's hero, Arthur, growing up in industrial Nottingham in the '30s and on the dole...
Perennially jobless Dad, without a tanner for a smoke, rages at hunger and helplessness, beats up nagging Mam, or stares at the wall. When the back rent piles up, it comes time for a "moonlight flit"-the household goods piled on a barrow and trundled at midnight to a vacant tenement in another slum...
...fallen behind and missed the show. Sailing down the Ganges River on a marigold-decorated boat, Jackie inspected the burning and bathing ghats along the shore. In Agra she was "overwhelmed by a sense of awe" at the sight of the shimmering Taj Mahal in sun and moonlight. "I have seen pictures of the Taj," she said, "but for the first time I am struck with a sense of its mass and symmetry." The Indians, who crowded in everywhere for a glimpse of her, were also overwhelmed. Said a confused cab driver who recalled President Eisenhower's 1959 visit...
...their act. The bazaars of Benares were being swept clean for her visit. Barges that will carry Mrs. Kennedy and some of her party of 80-mostly newsmen and newshens -down the Ganges awaited sailing orders. And the Taj Mahal, which she will view both by daylight and moonlight-well, the Taj Mahal, postponement or no, always lives up to its advance billing. For her part, the First Lady was packing trunkloads of clothes by Cassini, Chez Ninon and Tassell. She had got shots for cholera, smallpox, yellow fever, typhus, typhoid and tetanus-without getting sick. She had conscientiously boned...
Again the thin clouds Again the brilliant moonlight after the clouds But no more the travel companion of last year...