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...funeral took place in New Delhi's Shanti Vana Park, less than 100 yards from a memorial to Nehru. The cortege arrived at 6:30 p.m., with the family riding in a jeep. There was only one slipup: Rajiv began to put incense and camphor on the body before the flag of the Congress Party (I) (for Indira) had been removed. When this was done, mantras were chanted and the pyre...
Roaring down the Paris-Strasbourg highway two weeks ago, a 22-ton truck overturned and boxloads of books covered in blue imitation leather were scattered all over the road. Despite that slipup, the secret of the book was kept intact. Last week, when it was released well ahead of schedule, and without the usual publicity buildup, all France was surprised. One critic compared its impact to that of "a 75-ton meteorite," which, as it happens, is just about the weight of the 250,000-copy first edition of Memoirs of Hope: The Renewal, the first of three volumes...
That was cutting it pretty close. Anyhow, it didn't work; through some sort of slipup, the U.S. Navy jets arrived on the scene about an hour after the Cuban exiles' B-26s, which by then had mostly been shot down...
...change of address. Herbie Chandler, the bell captain, can package and deliver a well-mounted orgy in three hours flat. Ogilvie, the house detective, will accept $25,000 to forget about a hit-and-run accident. There are shortcomings, of course, and once in a while even a mechanical slipup, like the business with the elevator. The assistant general manager "made a mental note" to find out what was wrong as early as page 40. But what with one thing and another (if he wasn't replacing all Gideon Bibles bearing call girls' phone numbers on the frontispiece...
...letter concerning John Polacheck '64-4 which appeared in yesterday's CRIMSON was--by some unfortunate slipup--nearly two months out of date. Polacheck left Mississippi some time ago, and is now back in Cambridge...