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...Wears 10A." With such courtesies attended to, Jackie boarded a special air-conditioned train for a look at India's tourist attractions. At Fatehpur Sikri, she watched in fascination as breechclothed youths made a risky, 100-ft. dive off a rampart into a well-and then did it all over again when Jackie discovered that her sister, Lee Radziwill, who was traveling with her, had fallen behind and missed the show. Sailing down the Ganges River on a marigold-decorated boat, Jackie inspected the burning and bathing ghats along the shore. In Agra she was "overwhelmed by a sense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Administration: Queen of America | 3/23/1962 | See Source »

...Gallwey, at number three, beat Tech captain Jeff Winicour, 6-3, 3-6, 6-2. The varsity swept the remaining singles in routine fashion, with Fred Vinton defeating Bob Kennefich, 6-3, 6-3, Jorge Lemann whipping Bob Hodges, 6-2, 6-4, and Bill Wood routing Ravi Sikri...

Author: By Peter J. Rothenberg, | Title: Tennis Varsity Defeats M.I.T., 9-0; Weld Conquers Favored Engineer | 4/16/1959 | See Source »

...number one man the past two years. Below this point, however, the varsity has three men--Fred Vinton, Jorge Lemann and Bill Wood--of very high caliber, who (at least by their vacation performances) should have no difficulty with their respective opponents, Bob Kenfick, Bob Hodges, and Rabi Sikri...

Author: By Peter J. Routhenberg, | Title: Varsity to Face M.I.T. in Tennis | 4/15/1959 | See Source »

...doubles, number one-with Weld-Bowditch playing Carmen-Klapper--should be quite match, but the Crimson appears to have the edge in the other two, Gallwey-Vinton against Winicour-Kenfick and Lemann-Wood against Hodges-Sikri...

Author: By Peter J. Routhenberg, | Title: Varsity to Face M.I.T. in Tennis | 4/15/1959 | See Source »

...British royal family to visit India since independence. Though his trip grew out of an invitation from the Indian Science Congress, attending scientific meetings was the least of his chores. There was lunch with the Maharajah of Jaipur, a picnic tea at the deserted Moghul city of Fatehpur Sikri, a moonlight visit to the Taj Mahal, a visit to Chandigarh, the city designed by Le Corbusier, and a polo match in Delhi. From Bombay, Bangalore, Madras and Calcutta, Philip will inspect everything from ancient cave sculptures to an atomic energy plant. But one of his unstated missions was something else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Auld Lang Syne | 2/2/1959 | See Source »

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