Word: indianized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nobody knew exactly what this meant, but critics promptly pointed out that the Chinese system was collectives, not cooperatives ; they warned that the individualistic Indian farmer would join a cooperative only if forced, and they saw jeopardy to India's proud position as a democratic alternative to Red China's coerced economy. But Agricultural Minister Jain promptly echoed the boss. "There is no other alternative but cooperative farming!" he cried...
...even slightly declined in the past three years-while India's population inexorably rose by 15 million. Interrupting his vacation to drive over to Mussoorie for an All-India Development conference. Nehru listened gloomily to discussions which blamed the weather, poverty and religious scruples for the Indian farmer's lethargy. Abruptly, Nehru broke in with a pet solution of his own: farm cooperatives, partially based on the "Chinese system" but "instituted under democratic conditions...
...that his bishop, the Rev. W. Angie Smith of Oklahoma City, had accepted fees in the form of "love gifts" for consecrating and dedicating churches, that he had allowed preachers to solicit funds for himself and his family, and that he had even permitted the superintendent of the Methodist Indian Mission Conference to solicit Indians for gifts of jewelry, saddles, beaded handbags...
...history is written it seems only a long minute since the great subcontinent of India was ruled by a unique commercial enterprise called the East India Company. A century ago that rule came to a bloody end with the Indian Mutiny. In a splendid narrative, British Newsman James Leasor has brought a bewilderingly confused mass of material into focus where it belongs-on the Red Fort of Delhi and the old walled city where the last of the Moguls sat in splendor and squalor amid his treasure, eunuchs and his 700-year past...
...hand at delivering the cultivated sneer, plays the intrepid and imperturbable voyager in a way which leaves nothing to be desired. A famous Mexican comedian named Cantinflas is consistently funny throughout as the valet, and shines particulary in a humorous interpretation of a bullfight. Shirley MacLaine plays the Indian princess, and the late Robert Newton makes his last screen appearance as a detective who pursues the travelers under the impression that he is chasing a pair of bank robbers. Todd has also somehow managed to get 44 stage and screen stars to play bit parts. They include such varied figures...