Word: gandhis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Center of Gravity. More and more, Congress Party leaders were arguing for a succession arrangement. Many were dismayed at the unofficial bedside power wielded by Nehru's daughter, Mrs. Indira Gandhi; they would like to see her officially installed as chief of the External Affairs Ministry, where her wide knowledge of diplomacy could be put to good use-and where party officials could keep an eye on her. Nehru may soon be forced to elevate to the Cabinet someone who in fact would run the country. Likeliest prospect, and leading candidate to succeed Nehru: former Home Minister Lai Bahadur...
...Bhubaneswar, 220 miles southwest of Calcutta, where 10,000 delegates, officials, newsmen and hangers-on were gathered for the Congress Party's 68th annual convention. Bhubaneswar had worn a festive air. Green, white and saffron party flags fluttered from hundreds of flagpoles, and pictures of Nehru and Mahatma Gandhi adorned shop windows. On his arrival, Nehru was so weak that aides had to lift him from a helicopter, and when he finally was able to walk, he shuffled away with back bent and head bowed. At a flag-raising ceremony, his words were almost inaudible. At the first party...
Fearing the political consequences of the Prime Minister's disability, Nehru's closest aides seemed bent on minimizing its seriousness. Indira Gandhi showed up at Congress meetings, announced airily that her father was already sitting up in bed and reading, remarked that he had even disobeyed doctors' orders by taking a bath...
...Tittle or George Shearing, but he can, discourse by the hour about Thoreau, Hegel, Kant and Gandhi...
...Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Pa., King built the underpinnings of his philosophy. Hegel and Kant impressed him, but a lecture on Gandhi transported him, sent him foraging insatiably into Gandhi's books. "From my background," he says, "I gained my regulating Christian ideals. From Gandhi I learned my operational technique...