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Over the next twelve hours, at least 19 explosions went off in other public , places in the Indian capital--bus stations and bus stops, shops, even a ricksha or two--and soon reports flowed in of similar incidents in nearby states. Eleven people were killed in Haryana, two in Rajasthan, and 22 in Uttar Pradesh, including 14 people who perished in blasts that ripped through two trains. One was the Himachal Express, bound from New Delhi for points north. It was pulling into the station at Meerut, 37 miles northeast of the capital, when a blast ripped through...
...fully adapted to them?" Indeed, for all its tacky flash, Lourdes treats with respect the sick who come there hoping to be cured. Wheelchairs wait at the front doors of all 390 hotels, and stretchers on wheels are rigged so that the ill can be transported to the grotto, ricksha-style, by volunteers...
Bosom Buddies. The climax of the opening ceremonies seemed to herald a match between Genghis Khan and Catherine of Russia. King was borne in on a red-draped gold divan by four bare-chested men wearing slave armbands, while Riggs entered in a ricksha pulled by five of the ample girls he refers to as "bosom buddies." He presented Billie Jean with a large Sugar Daddy sucker ("for the biggest sucker in the world"); the stunt had Billie Jean's full cooperation, since it reportedly earned each a fast fat $20,000. King responded by giving Bobby a live...
...Shenyang. Unless one counts the Chinese Ping Pong team, the Shenyang troupe is China's first cultural export to the U.S. under the exchange agreed to last winter by President Nixon and Chou Enlai. It is a delightful debut, a cross between a Chinese circus and a ricksha pileup...
...when Chinese officials disclosed that Kissinger's visit to Peking had taken place while Reston was being kept out of the capital. "In my delirium," he went on, "I could see Mr. Kissinger floating across my bedroom ceiling grinning at me out of the corner of a hooded ricksha...