Word: karan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Family planning depends on discipline," Karan Singh, India's Minister of Health and Family Planning, warned Parliament in January. "If the discipline is not self-inspired, it may have to be imposed." Last week the Indian government decided that self-discipline would not curb India's burgeoning population, which at the present birth rate will reach 1 billion by the year 2000. The government announced a plan to penalize city government employees and other residents of New Delhi who do not limit their families to two children...
...disease that once made vast stretches of the Himalayan foothills practically uninhabitable almost disappeared from many communities. Formerly infested areas were opened to development, and governments began to phase out the spraying programs, diverting resources to seemingly more pressing health problems. "We became complacent," acknowledges Indian Health Minister Karan Singh. "We thought we had it licked...
...Arthur Karuna-Karan and Mahmood Mamdani? Who are Bonnie B. Blustein '72 and Ira D. Helfand '71? Who is Tommy th'Bopper...
...glittering .745. But Ara says it will be a while before he's ready to try again. He plans to spend more time with his wife Katie, and devote greater attention to his insurance business and volunteer work with the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. (His daughter Karan suffers from the disease.) "If I get itchy feet a year from now," he says, "and I see that I'm missing the game, then I'll come back...
...Angel, the elderly financier, Mme. Goldentrill, the aging diva. Yet how boldly the types are cast, and how fresh the music. It was a good show, even though Director Frank Corsaro placed the action in the Edwardian era in a wasted effort to provide contrast with the Salieri. Sopranos Karan Armstrong (Goldentrill) and Ruth Welting (Miss Silverpeal) filled the theater with fine singing and fetching looks...