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Henry Cabot Lodge, 58, the vice-presidential nominee, was born a princeling of one of Boston's great Brahmin families. His poet father died when young Henry was seven, and his grandfather, the ferocious, archisolationist old Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Sr., took over his education and training. Part of his boyhood was spent in France, and Lodge became completely bilingual. At Harvard he graduated with honors in three years, and his classmates found him a rather stuffy, condescending young man with the good looks of an Apollo† and an undoubted charm-when he chose to turn...
...peasant's son who has seen hunger himself. After an apprenticeship as a reporter, he plunged into the rough-and-tumble of Bombay politics, was the city's undisputed political boss for years before he ran for mayor and won. He had nothing in common with Brahmin aristocrats such as Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. Three years ago, when Nehru finally named Patil to the cabinet, it was with reluctance. But within weeks of taking over the Food and Agriculture Ministry last August, Patil devised a daring solution to India's chronic food crisis. Nehru was half-hearted...
Political Career. After the war, Kennedy naturally turned to politics, successfully ran for Congress in 1946. Six years later he cast his net for the Republican Senate seat of Brahmin Henry Cabot Lodge and won, in a stunning reversal of the Eisenhower tide that swept through Massachusetts and the nation. In the Senate, Kennedy has been a thoughtful middle-reader, with a highly independent record and a special interest in labor reform. At the 1956 Democratic Convention he was chosen to make a nominating speech for Adlai Stevenson, then was swirled up in the great attempt to stop Tennessee...
...pilot project including representatives of four religions has been set up this Fall. A Brahmin Hindu from India, a Burmese Buddhist who has lectured at the New International Center of Buddhistic Studies, a Pakistani Buddhist monk, and an American Christian participate in the program...
Khrushchev happily drove on. At Ames, where he toured the Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanical Arts, he was at his bubbling best. More and more, as tensions slacked, he made Brahmin-born Cabot Lodge his straight man. Said he in a hog barn: "In all his life, Mr. Lodge probably hasn't taken in as many smells as today." When it came time for the predictable message, Khrushchev was, as always, prepared: "These Soviet and American pigs can coexist-why then can't our nations coexist as well? . . . If I may say something in a joking...