Word: v
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...V. GALLERY Rear Admiral, U.S.N. (ret.) Vienna...
...Continent on the cheap. The Rich Man's Guide to Europe is due out next month, and there is already one guidebook instructing executives on how to do business in Europe while living it up on the expense account (Paris starting point: royal suite at the Hotel George V, which goes for $100 a day). Four books tell parents how to travel with their children without losing their minds-or their children. Two books tell girls how to catch a man in Europe (one ploy: look helpless). Two others tell men where to find "emancipated" girls. The advice...
...week's end, Rhodesia's Ian Smith announced that he no longer even wanted the Ioanna V's oil, since it would only aggravate the already messy diplomatic problems. In the next breath, he severed all remaining diplomatic ties with Britain by closing the British mission in Salisbury and Rhodesia House in London. He blasted Harold Wilson's government as "hypocritical," and-in a sly bit of one-upmanship-claimed that the U.N. resolution itself "unwittingly acknowledged Rhodesia's independence...
...young generation is often a curious blend of old and new. M. V. Arunachalam, 38, who helps direct twelve family companies in southern India, prefers to wear the sheetlike Indian lungi and practices yoga every morning, but he also insisted on automatic elevators in the firm's new nine-story building, and is negotiating with IBM for a computer to handle payrolls and inventory. The Mafatlals, on the other hand, follow the tradition of communal living: the brothers and their families all occupy one five-story, 20-bedroom house. Arvind Mafatlal is a vegetarian, prays an hour every morning...
...then last week on Easter Sunday, home from a Mass sung (to his crusty satisfaction) in Latin, he climbed the stairs to his study and died of a heart attack. His novels survive and will continue to survive as long as there are readers who can savor what Critic V. S. Pritchett calls "the beauty of his malice...