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...author of that threatening boast walked up to a snake charmer in the Indian city of Agra last week and, while his aides looked on aghast, seized a thick, six-foot-long python in his strong hands and draped it over his shoulders. Making a ten-day tour of India, the commander of the Russian navy was acting like the traditional sailor on shore leave. He viewed the Taj Mahal by moonlight, visited the Nehru Museum and the site where Mahatma Gandhi's body was cremated, and shopped for souvenirs. But Admiral Sergei Georgievich Gorshkov's trip to India...
...hull and powerful twin in-board-outdrive engines, and can plane at speeds of 30 m.p.h. or more, as fast as conventional cruisers costing twice as much. With prices beginning as low as $9,000, houseboats are gaining converts faster than any other type of boat. At the current ten-day National Boat Show in Manhattan's Coliseum, they are rivaling glamour yachts such as the $80,250 Hatteras triple-cabin cruiser, the most expensive boat in the show, for attention...
...Washington-based Club Internationale, with 17,000 members in 35 cities. Unlike the others, it operates on the principle of "pay now, go later." Members kick in $995 in weekly installments over a three-year period. In each of the first two years, they are entitled to a ten-day vacation in the Caribbean or Central America. The third year brings the big payoff: 20 days in Europe...
...France's 23 universities last week, 250.000 students abandoned their lectures in a carefully planned three-day boycott of classes. At the same time, class attendance at the University of Madrid dropped sharply during a ten-day strike, and 1,000 students conducted a protest march. In Italy, although the Catholic University of Milan was reopened after student protests had closed it for a week, absenteeism persisted; meanwhile, riotous students at the University of Naples barricaded Rector Giuseppe Tesauro in his own office until club-swinging police broke through the blockade...
...cars on sale earlier this year than last, Ford's sales figures show definite strike symptoms. In the first ten days of this month, the Lincoln-Mercury Division sold only 5,650 cars, as against 14,058 last year. Though they, too, face possible strikes, the other automakers are cheering the best "debut time" in new car history. In all, the industry sold 327,531 new cars in the last ten days of September-second best ten-day period ever...