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...presidential Columbine. He was Nepal's King Mahendra Bir Bikram Shah Deva. 39, a sensitive poet by inclination, a statesman by necessity. He is absolute ruler of a tiny kingdom in the high Himalayas, wedged between populous India and Chinese-controlled Tibet. Accompanied by handsome Queen Ratna Rajya Lakshmi Devi Shah, in blue sari and mink coat. King Mahendra moved stiffly through welcoming pomp, kept silent (though he speaks fluent English) during the limousine drive downtown with President Eisenhower...
Last week Carder-Bresson contemplated the windowed gorges of Manhattan, while his wife-Javanese Dancer Ratna Mohini -rehearsed for a recital. He took his camera everywhere about the city, peering, with an explorer's lust for the unknown, into thousands of hurrying faces. "Human faces," Carder-Bresson mused, "are such a world...