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...Detergents answered the Shangri-las Leader of the Pack...

Author: By Robert P. Marshall jr., | Title: R'n'R Response Feeble | 5/31/1967 | See Source »

INDIA too is expecting an enormous turnout of tourists this year. And if they ever get beyond haggling with the marketplace throngs of Delhi and Calcutta, visitors can luxuriate in the Shangri-lalike valleys of Kashmir, where they can rent a houseboat for as little as $49 a week and drift about the placid, clear mountain lakes. For the more rugged visitor, Nepal has the Tigertops Hotel, which offers its guests an elephant-back excursion through the jungles. For the athletic, there is a $300-a-week hiking trip through tiny Buddhist villages, across flower-carpeted Himalayan meadows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: Call of the World | 4/28/1967 | See Source »

...brand of musician, the cocktail pianist. The sign outside says "Music for Hand Holders," but he plays for not only the bewitched but also the bothered, bewildered and just plain bombed. His salon is a saloon with carpeting, usually sporting a get-away-from-it-all name like the Shangri-la or the Windjammer. The lights are low, and the prices are high. And what escape the customer cannot find in the alcohol and easy ambiance, the cocktail pianist provides with a painless medley of ballads, show tunes, light classics and, inevitably, a Happy Birthday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nightclubs: The Mood Merchants | 3/24/1967 | See Source »

...Sixth Fleet's aircraft carrier Shangri-La and scores of other ships converged on the disaster area. King Constantine flew his DC-3 to the scene and circled overhead, sometimes relaying rescue instructions to the searchers. On the dock at Piraeus, thousands of friends and relatives waited for the ships carrying the survivors and the blanket-shrouded bodies. By week's end 47 had been rescued, but the death toll was put at 234, making it one of the worst sea tragedies in Greek history. The government ordered a three-day period of national mourning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Death on Wine-Dark Waters | 12/16/1966 | See Source »

...Supreme songs the girls tried almost worked. It was "Somewhere," and Diana's throaty lyric quieted the crowd to a whisper, but then she succumbed to a long, Shangri-la-like spoken dialogue concerning trees, birds, and other embarrassing items. The audience succumbed to a titter...

Author: By Linda J. Greenhouse, | Title: The Supremes | 2/14/1966 | See Source »

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