Word: gandhi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Inevitably, there were the prescribed calls. Jackie journeyed to the burning ghat on the Jumna River, laid a bouquet of white roses on the spot where Gandhi was cremated in 1948. Visiting a home for vagrant boys in Delhi and the children's ward of a hospital, she made her first namastes-the Indian palms-together greeting-and tried out her Hindi ("What is your name?"). She also paid a call on India's President Rajendra Prasad at the presidential palace in New Delhi, and though she ate Western food during most of her trip, gamely dug into...
...heed. Whether she wore a Cassini evening dress or a Tassell gown-all duly recorded by reporters-Jackie shone even among the colorful saris of the Indian women around her. When she slipped off her shoes and put on violet velvet slippers to visit the memorial to Mahatma Gandhi, Chicago Daily News Correspondent Keyes Beech was quick to peek inside the shoes, triumphantly cabled home: "I can state with absolute authority that she wears 10A and not 10AA." So clothes-conscious were the newsmen that they even asked U.S. Ambassador to India John Kenneth Galbraith who had designed his suit...
Rudolph admitted that "Nehru is no Gandhi," but observed that "something must have happened" to push him from a moderate position to a violent one. The slipping prestige of India among the "so-called neutral Afro-Asian nations," and the political advantages implicit in a single decisive action, were the precipitating factors, Rudolph asserted...
...night spots are now flourishing with topical jokesters. Manhattan's The Premise has just opened a Washington outpost, where distinguished audiences (including, on occasion, Vice President Lyndon Johnson, Senators Hubert Humphrey, Mike Mansfield, Kenneth Keating, "Scoop" Jackson) have been neighing in the aisles while a performer playing Mahatma Gandhi turns over slowly in his grave after Nehru tells him about Goa, or Chief Sun Cloud, a new Senator from Wyoming, calls up the admissions committee of the Cosmos Club and the committee chairman sighs. "If it isn't one thing, it's another...
...Scout. Menon's mind is a weird, eclectic mixture, containing more of Marx than of Gandhi, more of the Bloomsbury agnostic than the Hindu,† more 19th century radicalism than 20th century reality, all held together by arrogance. His feelings toward colonialism can be traced partly to his birthplace, the town of Calicut on the Malabar coast (now the state of Kerala). "I was born where Vasco da Gama made the first landing by a European in India," Menon says. But he is reluctant to talk about his youth. "I have no past, have no journals or diaries. When...