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Freely translated, Lal Bahadur Shastri means "Graduate Brave Jewel." He was born in 1904, the second son of a minor tax collector in the vil lage of Mughal Sarai, near the holy city of Benares. His father died when he was an infant. The child belonged to the Kayasth caste, who were disdained as quislings by other Hindus because they became clerks and officials under the Moslem rule of the conquering Mogul emperors. Their reputation for shrewdness is so great that an Indian saying runs, "If you meet a Kayasth and a serpent, kill the Kayasth first...
METROPOLITAN-Fifth Ave. at 82nd. Something for everyone: Rembrandt's paintings and prints; Raphael's long-lost drawing of Madonna and Child with the Infant Saint John the Baptist; Wedgwood's revolutionary creamware; English jugs transfer-printed with American heroes and history; the architectural fantasies of previous world's fairs; Dutch, Flemish and French paintings...
...great object in view," explained the Bishop of Oxford, "is to make him the most perfect man." Surely not impossible, according to the phrenologist, Dr. George Combe; the infant Prince of Wales not only had splendid "moral and intellectual" bumps, but gave every sign of developing his "higher powers of control" at the expense of his lower ones. At that happy news, even the Queen seemed satisfied. She was confident, she wrote, that "the dear child" would grow up to be just like "his angelic, dearest father...
King did not deny Shakhov's charge that St. Helena's present-day population has an infant mortality rate of 33.6 per 1,000. Instead, he referred the Russian to the U.N. statistical yearbook, which lists several European nations as having even higher rates. Among them: "Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Rumania and the Soviet Union...
...Christ said, "Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me! for of such is the kingdom of heaven." He made no mention of original sin, infant baptism, limbo, etc. Why should...