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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...romance between a Sikkimese youth and a Calcutta hairdresser in the hope of importing the kingdom's first coiffeuse. She describes her home as "a poorish palace but a palace." It is a 64-year-old, two-story white stucco building with five bedrooms and a tin roof. In Gangtok, the family gets around in a white Mercedes convertible. On foreign trips, however, they make a point of flying economy class and often stay with friends. "It's no great Oriental splendor we live in," Hope observes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sikkim: A Queen Revisited | 1/3/1969 | See Source »

Fiddler on the Roof--Now in its fifth year and still in great shape, this powerful Stein-Bock-Hasnick-Robbins musical drama weaves Sholom Aleichem's "Tevye" stories into a panoramic view of the breakdown of tradition in Russian-Jewish society. Harry Goz is Tevye and Rae Allen is his wife. At the MAJESTIC, W. 44th...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Christmas in New York: The Plays to See | 12/20/1968 | See Source »

ZORBA. Producer-Director Hal Prince has turned out a non-Jewish version of Fiddler on the Roof. But this time Herschel Bernardi merely inhabits the hero's role rather than being possessed by it, and Maria Karnilova never quite provides the mixture of girlish coquetry and faded carnality that the role of Bouboulina requires. The music sounds as if it is being piped in by Muzak; the lyrics are insipid, the dances are any old folk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Dec. 13, 1968 | 12/13/1968 | See Source »

Social Services--Hot lunch programs and income supplements for the elderly, a multi-service center to give a variety of social services, including psychiatric care and case work, under one roof...

Author: By William R. Galeota, | Title: Model Cities Program Vote Held | 12/7/1968 | See Source »

...three-story cream-colored chalet, with its red-tiled roof, sits on a knoll in a one-acre garden of pine and chestnut trees. Those who have been inside the villa describe its furnishings as "early Mussolini-pretty ugly stuff." In the entrance stand a wooden cupboard, a nondescript sofa and a desk manned by a Frenchman who appears to be a security man assigned by the French Communist Party. In the second-floor salon where Madame Binh has her office and receives visitors, the original pictures have been taken down (with the hooks left hanging), and portraits of N.L.F...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diplomacy: The Front in Paris | 12/6/1968 | See Source »

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