Word: gandhi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prohibition in India got its start through misdirected idealism. Mohandas Gandhi, the revered father of Indian independence, maintained that "there is no halfway house between drunkenness and prohibition," and under the Gandhian influence prohibition was specified as a national goal in India's constitution. Today, Finance Minister Morarji Desai, widely regarded as Nehru's most probable successor, is also the nation's most convinced prohibitionist...
Just Like Gandhi. At the first stop, Lumumba ordered six cases of beer and distributed them with a free hand to all comers. Moving to another nightspot, he gaily twirled a comely Congolese lass around the dance floor, then prevailed on her to join his touring troupe. Someone in the group produced a bottle of Grand Marnier, and from then on the gulps of beer were alternated with slugs of orange liqueur. By the time Lumumba and friends weaved into the lounge at the Hotel Regina several drinks later, the whole party was flying high. As astonished diners gaped...
Independent India is discovering social problems undreamed of in Mahatma Gandhi's philosophy. As the caste system and the traditional Hindu family begin to crumble, the barrier between the sexes in India is no longer the formidable fence it used to be. Last week in Agra-where India's two most famous lovers, the Mogul Emperor Shah Jehan and his queen, lie buried under the Taj Mahal-the Indian Youth Association held a solemn seminar about a new kind of problem: the sidewalk dalliance that Indian youth calls "Eve-teasing...
Outraged by the fraud, Teheran University Professor Mozaffer Baghai, once a lieutenant of ex-Premier Mohammed Mossadegh and now an advocate of Gandhi-style protest, last week rallied 2,000 young Iranians to a meeting of his new movement, the "Protectors of Liberty." Speaking in quiet classroom tones from a stuccoed Teheran balcony, Baghai declared: "Premier Eghbal is a traitor. Among the big opium smugglers are high government officials, deputies, ministers, directors of independent agencies. Dr. Eghbal knows every one of them. If this Cabinet does not resign or is not removed, there will be an end to the Kingdom...
...Nashville sit-ins as the turning point in the success of the integration movement. By capturing the imagination of many Southern Negroes, the demonstrators, he said, instilled new life into the movement. The Reverend called upon Negroes to endure whatever hardships the sit-ins would bring. Citing Gandhi's successes with non-violence, Lawson looked forward to the triumph of Southern Negroes over prejudice...