Mysore Maharajahs Live On in City’s Splendor and Decay
In Mysore India the former rulers are remembered more for philanthropy than power. The Wadiyar family funded palaces gardens and arts while state aims converted Lalit Mahal into a hotel and the Metropole deteriorates. Dasara festival figures, royal guards, and a grand palace compound attract visitors. Tipu Sultan’s era and the 18th century battles appear in murals and relics.
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Wadiyar
Mysore
India
Tipu
Lalit Mahal
Chamundi Hill
Blysore
Metropole
Imaharajah
Brindavan
Krishnarajsagar
Krishnaratsagar
Pope Sees Astronaut in Private Vatican Audience
Pope Paul VI received US astronaut Col. James V. McDivitt in a private audience. He expressed admiration for the U S space program and asked McDivitt to convey blessings to fellow astronauts including the Apollo 11 crew preparing to land on the moon next month.
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Vatican City
Colorful Yosemite Time Park Wild Flowers Bloom
Tioga Pass road through Yosemite National Park becomes a corridor of wildflowers. Lupine, wallflowers, shooting stars, marigolds, and many others dot the roadside and meadows from Crane Flat to ten miles south. Wildlife and park naturalists note profusion, with notable blooms such as sky pilot atop Mt Dana and the large Tulcumme Meataws meadow.
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Yosemite Time Park
Tioga Pass
Sierra
Yosemite National Park
Crane Flat
Sars Heller
Tuolumne Meadows
Mt Dana
Japanese Directors Tap to Direct Tora! Tora! Tora!
Twentieth Century Fox signed two of Japan's outstanding directors for the Nippon sequences. Toshio Masuda and Kinji Fukasaku will helm the Japan segments of the World War II epic Tora! Tora! Tora!
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Hollywood
Twentieth Century -Fox
Japan
Nippon
Toshio Masuda
Kinji Fukasaku
Clock Tower chimes 900 times in Nottingham village
In NOTTINGHAM, England a village clock began at five o'clock and chimed 900 times before a clockmaker judged the mechanism odd. The expert noted the device appeared malfunctioning and advised further inspection.
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Nottingham
England
UPI
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Sara
Spinnr Honda
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Monument Blvd
Richmond MacDonald
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Tenaya Lake
Herb Ewing
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