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INDIA. Water cascades down the exterior of the glass pavilion, a quote from Gandhi is carved in pink marble, and sari-clad girls welcome the visitor to view such Indian art objects as the palace doors of Rajasthan, Hindu temple hangings, Buddha sculptures and miniature paintings...
...Goes Grivas. Makarios spent his week gently agreeing with every visitor from the U.N. commander, India's General Kodendera Thimayya, to U.S. Ambassador Taylor G. Belcher, and then going his own way. He seemed unperturbed by the blast from Athens, where Greece's Premier George Papandreou accused him of launching the drive against Kokkina in violation of a firm promise not to attack without Greek knowledge and consent. When the Greek army officer commanding Makarios' National Guard resigned for the same reason. Makarios simply appointed in his place General George Grivas, the tough old resistance fighter...
...have any Negro students?" a visitor asked the headmaster of a celebrated Eastern prep school. "Certainly," came the reply-or so the story goes. "There's one of them now. I don't know where the other is, but he's around here somewhere...
COCA-COLA. A clatter of rickshas and the chatter of Chinese start the visitor on a walk around the world: past a Hong Kong market to the Taj Mahal, on to the Bavarian Alps, through a Cambodian jungle, winding up on a cruise ship bobbing in Rio's harbor. Afterwards, thirsty voyagers can pause and refresh at Coke stands in the courtyard...
Lacking the normal supply of G.I.s. Saigon's garish night life virtually flickered out. At one B-girl boîte, a lone visitor nursed his beer while a Vietnamese mademoiselle opened his pack ol cigarettes, another refilled his glass, and a third sighed, "These are bad times...