Word: delhi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru needs to relax, he stands on his head. This is not the exotic mysticism of the fabulous East but a practical way to drive off fatigue and make up for lack of sleep. Last week, as Nehru left New Delhi for Washington on one of the century's most important visits of state, his secretary discussed head-standing with U.S. newsmen: "Perhaps the Prime Minister will demonstrate this for your President Truman...
Tents & Portents. Underway in Srinagar was a convention of Sheikh Abdullah's Kashmir National Conference Political Movement, which has been running the Indian-occupied part of Kashmir ever since New Delhi sent troops into the region two years ago this month. As 650 national conference delegates tented on the maharaja's once inviolable polo field, a five-man U.N. commission quietly pulled out of the maharaja's riverside guesthouse and left town. It was bound for Geneva to prepare a report on its failure to win an agreement between India and Pakistan on Kashmir...
Back in New Delhi at week's end, Nehru said that the U.S.S.R.'s atomic discovery may help prevent war. "The more terrible the dangers of war," Nehru explained, "the more the people should see the folly of it and avoid it. But people do not always behave logically, of course...
...IATA (International Air Transport Association) held a hurried meeting, worked out a temporary solution. From Oct. 1, until permanent rates are set, all transatlantic fares-both ways-will be at the $350 rate, thus setting a new rate in London of ?125. But from London eastward to Cairo, New Delhi, etc., fares will remain unchanged at their old rate in pounds, francs, etc. That meant that U.S. airlines will have to take as much as a 30% cut in dollar fares to compete. On the sea lanes, Britain's luxury liners, a prime source of dollar revenue, promptly raised...
...them spoke in English. They offered more than 300 amendments. Southerners were most vehement. They hooted and jeered at pro-Hindi spokesmen, denounced "Hindu imperialism." Madras Representative Ramalingam Chettiar complained: "The way north Indians are trying to dominate us and dictate to us is galling ... I have been in Delhi for two years, and no north Indian has so far invited me even once for social functions, just because I don't know Hindi...