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By F. L. WORMALD
SprciaJ To Rappahannock New*
(First in a series)
From Spenyville to Delhi
Taj Mahal has a fair claim to being the most beautiful building that survives intact anywhere in the world. Until just the other day. it was one that, i half a lifetime of world travel. Virginia and I had never managed To see. Wehad a near-miss fifteen years ago. As I was lucky enough to be sent by my organization to an international meeting in Toykyo, we decided to splurge and circumnavigate the globe. Among other stops, we planned to spend a few days in New Delhi, visiting an old friend from our UN days and running down to Agra for a glimpse of the Taj. But fate willed otherwise. While we were in Japan. India got into one of its periodic scraps with Pakistan and international flights were banned from landing at Delhi. So we flew through the night, in one colossal bound. from Bangkok to Cairo and saw nothing in between. For Fifteen years we felt we had been cheated.
Then, last fall, we learned that the National Press Club and the Washington Press Club were jointly offering their members an officially sponsored ten-day trip to India. Ten days to see “the sub-continent”! But on reflection we decided that, if you could not devote ten years to it, ten days was probably as good as any intermediate period for getting the feel of the country. Also the price was right—far less, I am sure, than we should have had to spend to visit India under our
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