Word: gandhis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...significant in that it was one of the first demonstrations of Negro solidarity in the desegregation fight, and the then 27-year-old Martin Luther King became its symbol. As the movement's spokesman and philosopher, King brought to it the qualities which he himself embodied--the nonviolence of Gandhi, the compassion of Jesus, the courage of Socrates...
Sicily's angriest and least violent man, Danilo Dolci, 38, was staging a Gandhi-style fast to dramatize the need for a dam across the lato River, which could irrigate some 25,000 acres of parched, stingy land in the northwest. The government assigned funds for the dam two years ago. but, Dolci laments, "Not one stone 'has been turned." Danilo and the government had counted without Sicily's most implacable foe of progress: the Mafia...
...India its freedom in 1947, Independence Day in New Delhi has followed the pattern set by Jawaharlal Nehru, its unvarying master of ceremonies and India's only Prime Minister. Last week's anniversary was no exception. After laying a wreath on the Jumna River bank where Mahatma Gandhi was cremated, Nehru mounted the ramparts of New Delhi's ancient Red Fort, hoisted India's saffron, green and white tricolor and, beaming proprietorially at the vast multitude below, embarked on his annual address to the nation...
...Family? Nehru's own personal favorites in the succession sweepstakes are said to be his daughter, Indira Gandhi, 44, widow of Congress Party Backbencher Feroze Gandhi (no kin to the Mahatma), and acerbic, West-baiting Defense Minis ter Krishna Menon, 65. Nehru envisions his daughter, who is his closest confidante, as a stopgap Prime Minister who could keep India on an even keel until the Congress Party chose a permanent successor...
Died. Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy, 80, India's autocratic Chief Minister of West Bengal, including Calcutta, since 1948, a bachelor, who as Mahatma Gandhi's personal physician kept his patient alive during the freedom fasts by sugaring his orange juice; of a stroke; in Calcutta...