Word: indianized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from 3? to 5?), and chopping Commodity Credit Corporation costs nearly $400 million, mainly by lowering agricultural price supports. The rest of the budget's civil sector, far from shrinking, actually looms some $600 million bigger than in 1958. The thinning of some welfare programs, e.g., privies on Indian reservations and aid to states for education of retarded children, is more than offset by the fattening of others. Some of these boosts are Sputnik-inspired: a 100% increase for the National Science Foundation, $75 million for a brand-new program of science scholarships and other aid to education...
...anti-Western tone. Sudan's Foreign Minister Mohammed Mahgoub (one of the few officials to attend the "nonofficial" gathering) successfully opposed an anti-discrimination resolution bracketing the U.S. with South Africa, arguing that the U.S. has legislated against racial discrimination while South Africa officially enforces it. Egyptian and Indian delegates between them succeeded in killing a resolution condemning "the inhuman atrocities of the U.S. occupation forces in South Korea...
...Poona, Menon played his role as India's Defense Minister by enveloping his frail frame in a flying suit, strapping on a crash helmet and climbing aboard a Canberra jet bomber of the Indian air force. Streaking into Bombay in eleven minutes, Menon next appeared-natty in a white suit and swinging a cane-aboard the cruiser Mysore, the new flagship of the Indian navy. But it was as a politician of the folksy, Estes Kefauver model that Menon drew the largest crowds. At New Delhi and Madras he packed meeting halls to the rafters, and dhoti-clad crowds...
...objects to the intrusion of his private life is considered to be idiosyncratic, bizarre, uncooperative and dishonest." Uncooperatively, Brando would mumble not a word about his marriage or his pregnant wife, Variable Starlet Johanna ("Anna Kashfi") O'Callaghan Brando, who keeps uncooperatively insisting that she is a Bengalese Indian from Darjeeling (where nobody ever heard the name Kashfi...
...great cry for diversity. In order to fulfill this ideal, the office must choose a greater percentage of those who apply from minority groups than from the more homogeneous mass, other factors being equal. This quest for diversity is hampered when means of recognizing differences are abolished. The Indian or Negro would find his chances better, if a picture broadcasts his distinction, than if left to the law of averages. Harvard as a whole benefits from this sort of favoritism...