Word: krishnan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bombay the Indians did their bit to make the matches interesting. Captain Ramanathan Krishnan inspected the Cricket Club's slick clay court, groaned, "The Yanks will murder us on this," and ordered a new court to be built immediately-out of sand, an old Indian recipe guaranteed to take the bounce out of the ball, to say nothing of the Yanks. On the appointed day, the temperature was in the 90s, flocks of cawing crows hovered low overhead, and Indian fans heckled the Americans' both from the stands and from nearby apartment-house balconies. When California...
...rain-soaked hard courts against India's highly regarded ace, Ramanathan Krishnan, Osuna powdered the baseline with his drives, showed a baffling array of skittering slices; at times, he even employed some gamesmanship of his own, scooting catlike around a backhand to take it on his forehand. Krishnan carried the match to five sets, got a breather when the match was interrupted in the fourth set because of darkness. But that was it. Next day Osuna polished him off, then teamed with No. 2 Mexican Antonio Palafox to win the doubles to lead the jubilant squad...
...Vengalil Krishnan Krishna Menon, Defense Minister in Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru's Cabinet, has always inspired bitter antagonism from opponents both in and out of India. Abusive, rude and overbearing, Menon, 64, is a Western-educated intellectual who despises the West, a passionate foe of old-time colonialism who consistently dismisses or ignores the new-style Communist imperialism. Nehru values Menon highly as a friend, confidant and traveling apostle. He admires his provocative intelligence, uses him as a shock absorber to take attacks that might otherwise be directed at him or his government. "Menon is like...
...most widely held responsible for India's conquest of Goa is not Jawaharlal Nehru, but Nehru's abrasive, acerbic Defense Minister, Vengalil Krishnan Krishna Menon, who apparently provided the necessary push to overcome his master's remaining scruples. With elections due in February, Nehru and Menon have been under continuous harassment from Indian leftists for not expelling the Portuguese "imperialists" and from moderates and rightists for ignoring Red China's new incursions on India's northern frontier. Acting against Goa was one way to cover up inaction against China. Moreover, Menon's own parliamentary...