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DIED. Varahagiri Venkata Giri, 85, India's Brahman-born fourth President (1969-74), a fierce trade unionist and pacifist dubbed the "genial militant" by the Western press and friend of such revolutionaries as Eamon de Valera and Mohandas Gandhi; of a heart attack; in Madras...
...hour of yoga exercises each morning, including a spell of standing on his head. Whenever he feels drained intellectually, one unfailing source of energy remains to him-the Indian people. Nehru's long romance with the millions on millions of kisans, or peasants, began when he was 31. Brahman-born and British-bred, Nehru had returned home to provincial Allahabad with his sense of innate superiority re-enforced by seven years of upper-class education at Harrow, Cambridge and London's Inner Temple, where he qualified for the bar. Already a romantic dabbler in the independence movement, Nehru...
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