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...grow up to "become a terror to kings." But as a boy Man Singh was remarkable only for his mild and conscientious disposition. He took no part or interest in the traditional blood feuds between Brahman and Thakore that raged constantly in the Rajput countryside west of the Taj Mahal. He clothed himself in the handspun cloth of humility known as Khadi to show his allegiance to Gandhi, and in hawk-nosed, dignified manhood, he became one of the most respected members of the local government...
...leisurely glimpse, he wants to visit upstairs and down in all the buildings, with an archeologist at his side to answer a barrage of questions. At Agra, India, the other day, he spent more than five hours and must have walked from 10 to 15 miles examining the Taj Mahal and the ruins of Fatehpur Sikri, built by Emperor Akbar. Before the Prime Minister was midway through, I and the others in the party were beginning to feel like some of Akbar's laborers after a day of lugging marble slabs to the roof of a new mosque...
...tycoon, onetime OPA administrator and ex-governor of Connecticut, asked Harry Truman for the ambassadorship to India, he let himself in for some unexpected complications. Spending their first night on Indian soil, Bowles, his wife and their three younger children huddled together in one room of Bombay's Taj Mahal Hotel, awed and made uncomfortable by the five barn-sized rooms of the viceroy suite, in which their attendants had distributed them. Bowles faced his first formal call on President Rajendra
Sternberg as if it mattered. Sample bit of dialogue as Mitchum ogles Jane. She: "Enjoy the view?" He: "It isn't the Taj Mahal or the Hanging Gardens of Babylon...
...Cover] Heat had shimmered in Bombay since dawn, and hung on in the stifling dusk after the sunlight's glare was gone. But a thousand patient Hindus stood tight-packed and sweating before the Taj Mahal hotel to see the American Widow Roose- velt. They were rewarded by a strange tableau. A gleaming open automobile awaited the famous visitor. But when she climbed in, she did not sit down. She faced the applauding crowd, bowed her head and folded her hands before her in the Hindu posture of namqskar. It was a gesture which would have horrified and infuriated...