Word: grave
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...food crisis, Shastri decided to forgo rice as a symbol of self-denial. But out of modesty he refused to let the fact be relayed to the rioting people, and the possible impact was lost. Yet many Indians feel that more than self-abnegation is needed to confront grave problems. Says Editor Frank Moraes of the Indian Express: "Leaders have no business being humble...
...Grain Drain. The crises that confront India are grave indeed. First on the list is the perennial problem of providing enough food for a population that is growing at a rate of 3% a year. The cause of last year's food crisis was simple enough: for three straight years, Indian grain production remained static at 80 million tons. Sharp traders from Bombay to Calcutta capitalized on the underproduction by buying up wheat in the fields, then quietly ordering farmers to hold their crops for future delivery after prices had soared higher. In Shastri's home state, wheat...
...whose position requires that he grapple with the problems of criminal law, may I congratulate you upon a splendid and objective analysis in your essay, "The Revolution in Criminal Justice" [July 16]. Your objectivity is an encouraging contrast to the frequent emotional and sophomoric treatments of this grave issue...
Sorensen reports that Kennedy, "when briefed on the operation by the CIA as President-elect in Palm Beach, had been astonished at its magnitude and daring. He told me later on that he had grave doubts from that moment on." Schlesinger also reports that Kennedy was deeply dubious of the whole idea. But at one of the formal meetings that Kennedy held on the subject after he became President, he was persuaded by the plan's advocates that "the simplest thing, after all, might be to let the Cubans [meaning the exiles] go where they yearned...
SYMPHONY FOR A MASSACRE. Five crooks, with a double-crosser in their midst, embark on a million-dollar deal, and French Director Jacques Deray makes what happens next a matter of grave concern...