Word: gandhi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...balloting, done by written vote, and the counting took four hours. Then a party official announced the results: 355 votes for Indira Gandhi and 169 for her only rival, Morarji Desai. Indira walked quickly to the podium, spoke briefly. "As I stand before you," she said in Hindi, "my thoughts go back to the great leaders: Mahatma Gandhi, at whose feet I grew up, Panditji, my father, and Lal Bahadur Shastri. These leaders have shown the way, and I want to go along the same path...
...first members came out, someone shouted, "Is it a boy or a girl?" "A girl," came back the answer, and up went the cheers. Then a few minutes later, Indira appeared. The patrician profile, the pale smile, the rosebud?all reminded the crowd of their beloved Panditji. "Indira Gandhi zindabadr chanted the throng. "Long live Indira Gandhi...
...Indira Gandhi takes over a nation at the moment of its severest crisis in 18 years of independence. In northern India there is the threat of renewed invasion by the Red Chinese, who have already seized 14,500 sq. mi. of Indian territory. To the east and west lies the dilemma that is Pakistan, and the question of how to proceed with the truce agreement that Shastri negotiated with President Ayub Khan at Tashkent. At home, India is plagued by famine, rising unemployment, and just about every other woe that an overpopulated, poverty-stricken land is heir...
...Roosevelt? At first, some Westerners gasped in dismay at Mrs. Gandhi's election. They remembered her as the darling of India's left-wingers,the friend of Firebrand Krishna Menon, and the Prime Minister's willful daughter who stamped her sandaled feet and threatened to report hecklers in her audience to her pitaji (daddy). At 48, Indira has largely outgrown that sort of thing. The left-wingers may still be enthusiastic about her, but she is better balanced. Menon seldom comes to call, and Indira keeps her temper reined...
Historical Heroine. Probably no woman in history has ever assumed such responsibility as now rests on Indira Gandhi. In fact, only one other woman in modern times has ever headed a national government. She is Ceylon's Madame Sirima Bandaranaike, who was elected the year after her Prime Minister husband was assassinated. Yet the idea of a woman Prime Minister strikes outsiders as more curious than it does most Indians...