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Like so many proud fathers, India's Communists were busy clucking and exclaiming over their new prize exhibit-the Communist government of the state of Kerala (pop. 13.6 million) in southwest India. While Prime Minister Nehru's central government watched nervously, Chief Minister Sankaran Namboodiripad put on quite a show in his first two weeks in office. Ventilation systems were ordered for the state jails. The pay of village headmen was ostentatiously raised from $6.75 a month to a maximum of almost $11 a month. In a "gesture of mercy," the Communists promised to release 500 "political" prisoners...
...Punjab, one Congress candidate lost a state assembly seat to his estranged wife, who cornered the female vote with detailed accounts of her opponent's shortcomings as a husband. The only serious threat to Congress dominance, however, developed in the impoverished, densely populated Malabar Coast state of Kerala, where the Communists won a plurality in the state assembly. So long as the Reds did not win an absolute majority of the 126 assembly seats, Nehru could-and almost certainly would-keep them out of the state government by invoking "President's rule," i.e., appointment of a state governor...
Communists yesterday won control of an Indian state legislature for the first time. It was the hardest jolt to Prime Minister Nehru's ruling Congress party since the country became independent. The Reds scored their victory in Kerala, a new state established last fall on the tropical Malabar coast of southern India. Kerala's 13 1/2 million people are crammed 800 to the square mile, and unemployment is a perennial problem...
Organ recital given Sunday afternoon in Memorial Church by seven Harvard, Wellesley and Radcliffe students. General level of performance surprisingly high. Best playing done by James Armstrong (Mendelssohn's Second Sonata) and Kerala Johnson (the long-winded B-Minor Choral of Franck). The others need to work for greater rhythmic precision and vitality, and for clearer articulation...