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...taste of old times. Through their villages, in a 1948 Buick that scattered peacocks, startled bullocks and cloaked the neem trees with dust as it sped along, came the Maharani Gayatri Devi, her bobbed brown hair dipping over one eye and her lithe figure wrapped in a peppermint chiffon sari. With the homage they and their forefathers had always displayed to a maharajah's wife, the villagers touched foreheads to the dust, tossed marigold garlands and waved incense. Cried the crowds: "Come and be our lady again...
...Elsa. To open the Son Vida in approved International Set style, Rainier invited a task force of names and name droppers and sailed on Aristotle Onassis' yacht Christina. Besides his beautiful wife Princess Grace, the guests included the sari-clad Maharani of Baroda, Hollywood Columnist Hedda Hopper and Partygiver Elsa Maxwell, and, of course, Onassis' great and good friend, Maria Callas. There was some worry about the propriety of Rainier's and Princess Grace's traveling on Onassis' yacht, since Ari and Maria are not married-a condition that Princess Grace, as a good Catholic...
...what may have been only the first of successive retreats, the U.S. caved in and agreed to seat not one but two pro-Communist del egations, one from the Pathet Lao guerrillas and the other from ex-Premier Prince Souvanna Phouma (who stayed away, but sent his lissome, sari-clad daughter as a delegate). The pro-Western royal Laotian government, on hearing that it would be outnumbered, boycotted the conference-even though a British diplomat in Laos spent all day on a motor scooter trying to track down the Foreign Affairs Secretary and get him to change his mind...
...Many a Progeny-Many an Agony," read posters on Bombay buses last week. Teeming India is officially committed, more than any other nation in the world, to birth control. At 1,800 "family planning centers" across this nation of 403 million, social workers fit diaphragms and counsel sari-swathed village women on simpler methods of contraception (sample prescription: if nothing better is handy, a suppository of cotton wadding soaked in cooking oil may suffice). Despite back-country ignorance and considered opposition from leaders of India's 5,500,000 Roman Catholics, contraceptives are gaining slow acceptance in India...
...Pakistan. I lived there very happily with my husband and with everybody else even though I 1) did not adopt Islam; 2) did not accept the constraints of Moslem society, e.g., I certainly did talk to my husband's male friends; 3) did not learn to wear a sari or salwar and kameez-for the same reason that your article points out: a Western girl rarely looks good in them...