Word: gandhis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Rajendra Prasad, 78, India's first President (1950-62) and devoted disciple of Mahatma Gandhi, who gave up a law career in 1917 to join Gandhi's nonviolent independence movement, endure 4½ years of British imprisonment, and ever after led a rigidly Spartan life of vegetarianism, 3 a.m. yoga exercises, and daily sessions spinning cotton, the symbolic task that characterizes a Gandhian follower; of pneumonia; in Patna, India...
...Ghanshyam Das) Birla not only controls an empire of 350 concerns (textiles, automaking, chemicals, banking), but is one of Prime Minister Nehru's closest confidants and a member of and heavy contributor to Nehru's Congress Party. A tall and ascetic man, Birla financed Gandhi, gives enormous amounts to charity, and has opened many schools and hospitals. Many Marwaris, respected only for their business shrewdness, now long for the social standing that Birla has earned for himself, are sending their sons abroad to educate them. But in most Marwari households, a son who expresses a desire to follow...
...decree was good news to India's flourishing bootleggers. Mohandas Gandhi's abstinence led most states to establish liquor-control laws; today they range from total prohibition in Madras, Bombay and Gujarat, to restrictions in Calcutta (every Wednesday is a dry day) and New Delhi (two dry days per week...
...ambitious automaker had launched Plymouth in July, De Soto in August, brought out Dodge and set out to build the world's largest skyscraper - all in one year. "Curiously, it was in a jail at year's end" that TIME found the Man of 1930: Mohandas Gandhi. In 193 2, TIME asked of Franklin D. Roosevelt, "Will he make good in the White House? The country is only too ready to hope so." In 1934 it was F.D.R. again, "and only the narrowest partisan could cavil." Roosevelt in 1941 became the only three-time choice, though Winston Churchill...
...connection with that church, and membership is open to anyone who believes in God. The 20 permanent adult members of the community have taken vows, and live under an oath of poverty. Husbands and wives live together, are primarily responsible for the education of their children. In imitation of Gandhi, the members of the community begin their day with yoga-like exercises, practice an ardent pacifism. They have joined in sitdown strikes at the Marcoule atomic-energy plant, demonstrated against the detention camps set up for F.L.N. supporters during the Algerian...