Word: gandhis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tons of wheat and sorghum to India, to relieve the agonies of that country's second straight year of drought. The emergency allotment will serve to dispel reports that President Johnson has delayed new food outlays because of a fit of personal pique over Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's speeches against U.S. policy in Viet Nam. It will assure the eastward flow of food along the so-called "bridge of boats" until March and feed millions in the northern state of Bihar and other places where the rice crop has been a disaster...
Even as millions go to bed hungry, new mouths are born in India with metronomic regularity. This month the population soared over the 500-million mark, prompting Prime Minister Indira Gandhi to complain that her task is a lot like "building a house on land that is constantly flooded." Having just completed a "family-planning fortnight" to sell anew the slogan that "A small family is a happy one," the government-which has been endorsing birth control for 36 years-is still looking for ways to make this revolutionary idea catch fire across the land...
...other hand, Cerf was so positive that Stanley Wolpert's Nine Hours to Rama, a novel based on the assassination of Gandhi, would be a 1962 winner that he boosted the ad budget from $10,000 to nearly $30,000. It sold a disappointing 12,000 copies...
Wisdom of India; he retrieved it easily -it was like taking Gandhi from a baby...
...proud and somewhat willful lady, Indira Gandhi smarts under the allegation that she was picked as Prime Minister largely because the Congress Party's political pros reckoned that she would be easy to control. Yet she seemed to confirm that charge two weeks ago when she backed down on three Cabinet changes after running into strong protests from party bosses. Last week, as if to assert her independence, Mrs. Gandhi went right ahead and made some Cabinet changes anyhow...