Word: dass
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...command of India's navy, which has been operating and fighting under British commanders since 1613. At a sunset ceremony in landlocked New Delhi, Britain's Vice Admiral Sir Stephen Carlill, 55, handed over control of the 41 ships and 8,800 men to Rear Admiral Ram Dass Katari, 46, the first Indian to reach flag rank. Many Indians had complained that the "Indianization" of their navy came too slowly, but the Indian government preferred to wait until its own officers were thoroughly groomed for command. Before he left for home, Britain's Carlill was gratefully installed...
Consulting the planets, Astrologer Mahant Raghvir Dass, high priest of Delhi's Hanuman (Monkey God) temple, made a direful prediction: "The 13 months after May 5, 1955, will be inauspicious for marriages." The news had Delhi state in a marital dither last week. Unmarried thousands hurried to get hitched before the full moon in the sign of Vrischika...
...spread turmoil enough, Astrologer Dass threw out another prediction: "The period after May 5 will be bad for the world in general...
Front row (left to right): Charles P. Abbott of New Orleans, La. and Thayer Middle David S. Albertson of Newton, dass, and Dudley; Walter A. Baker of Columbia, Ky. and Thayer South; John Larbor of Philadelphia and Matthews North Marshall L. Berkman of Pittsburgh, Pa, and Wigglesworth; Thomas O. Bernheim of New York, N.Y. and Wigglesworth; Charles A. Birbara of Worcester, Mass, and Straus North...
...These people are illiterate," said Dr. Dass, as he prepared to go home and rest over the weekend for his next clinic. "If they can have enough sight to go about their work, it is miracle enough for them. That is all I try to give them...