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Deputy Superintendent Narindar Nath Tuli, 52, a crack New Delhi detective, got a strange feeling when a call came in from the three-star Vikram Hotel. The agitated hotel manager complained that 20 French tourists registered at the hotel were vomiting and rolling about as if they were drunk. Worse, they were accusing the manager of having poisoned them. Tuli, remembering that Interpol had alerted police to a series of druggings and murders of tourists in India and Southeast Asia, rushed over to the Vikram. There he was struck by a peculiar fact: only one of the group...
Detective Tuli credits Gauthier with "one of the sharpest minds I have come across." He says Gauthier and Leclerc watched Air France flights for likely targets, then checked into the same hotel as the new arrivals. Taking their victims out for a good time, they liked to order chicken curry, apparently because it disguised the taste of the still unidentified drug that they used to poison them...
...ARRIVED LATE to hear Tuli Kupferberg at the Polyarts Coffeehouse Sunday night, but we did not come late enough. The management held up the show for another 45 minutes, waiting for an audience to appear...
...placed in a baby contest, but there they were, looking surprisingly like their grown-up selves. From Baby Adolf Hitler to Altar Boy Richard Daley, the passel of snapshots and more formal portraits had been assembled somewhat irreverently in a paperback album, As They Were, by Sylvia Topp and Tuli Kupferberg. Little Walter Cronkite sported short pants and big ears; Sammy Davis Jr. at three looked like a refugee from Our Gang; Marlene Dietrich was demurely Victorian, with a tiny heart-shaped locket and crossed ankles. As a baby, Baby Dr. Benjamin Spock wore a wide-brimmed hat, a Gerber...