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...surprise attack a year ago, India's traditional policy of neutrality has been more honored in words than in deeds. While mounting the old homilies about nonalignment, India has petitioned the West for $1.5 billion in military aid and has agreed to a Western air-defense umbrella. Last week the U.S. Seventh Fleet prepared to take up positions in the Indian Ocean...
...While the used-elephant market has been seriously depressed by automation, a mahout-maintained model with buck et seat, two-tone umbrella and stick shift costs up to $1,500 f.o.b. Bangkok, or about $4,000 delivered at the Bronx Zoo. In Thailand, a U-Ride-It elephant is still a bargain at $2.50 a day (one-tenth as much as a rented truck), and is still hard to beat when it comes to bird watching, spraying treetops or hauling logs. But it is impossible to find pachyderm parking space in Bangkok. Shrugs a taxicab mahout: "Elephant too much fighting...
...Since candidates were restricted to three posters each (v. the previous limit of 12,000), many "accidentally" dropped cards, complete with picture and slogan, in telephone booths, department stores, bars and buses. On rainy days, one aspirant even had his campaign workers approach commuters and hand out armloads of umbrellas; when they were opened, the candidate's name spread out in huge characters painted on the umbrella surface...
...pure Kerr dialogue helps. Mary is Debbie Reynolds, giving one of her sprightliest performances as the wickedly witty, nearly divorced wife of Publisher Barry Nelson, who repeats his stage role in sharp, swinging style. "Life with Mary was like going into a telephone booth with an open umbrella," he rasps. "No matter which way you turned, you got it in the eye." Her bill of particulars includes: "It was hard to communicate with you. You were always communicating with yourself. The line was busy...
Neville Chamberlain was lucky to have died when he did. Had he lived beyond 1940, the man with the umbrella would hardly have survived his critics. E. H. Carr has reprimanded him, A.J.P. Taylor has roasted him, and J.F.K. '40 has stuck him with pins. Now, as if all this weren't enough, two young British historians have kicked his living daylights...