Word: krishnas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...death of the flower children. Television cameras ogled the scene as the mourners gathered around the casket and filled it with charms, peacock feathers, orange peels, bread (both edible and negotiable), flags, crucifixes, and a marijuana-flavored cookie. As the strains of God Bless America and Hari Krishna echoed from the pastel hillsides of the Hashbury, the casket was set on fire and a shout went up: "Hippies are dead: now the Free Men will come through...
...occasion, conducted the double-necklace ceremony. Then to share in the love, 50 of the guests formed a tight huddle around the bride and groom, hugged up close and rocked back and forth to the mu sic, while the lights flashed, balloons burst and everyone chanted the Hindu Hari Krishna (Hail Krishna). Soon everybody was kissing everybody. Nancy was radiant. "Everything's beautiful to the bride," she said. "All I want now is a home in the country where Artie and I can raise children. I'm sure he and I will love each other forever...
...Patil, a leading member of the party's kingmaking "Syndicate," was unseated by a 36-year-old former dock worker. Surendra Tapuriah, the young man who modeled his hairdo and politics after Bobby Kennedy, won by a landslide. To a younger candidate, too, fell fiery old Leftist Krishna Menon, 69, in a defeat that undoubtedly ended his stormy political career...
...running at such a fast pace because her party is in its deepest trouble since India won independence from Britain in 1947. Always an unwieldly conglomerate of everything from conservative businessmen to dreamy leftists, the Congress Party is suffering from an attack of election-eve defections. Fiery old Leftist Krishna Menon, India's onetime Defense Minister, has bolted the party after failing to win its nomination for Parliament from Bombay, is running as an independent. Key leaders in six other states have also broken with the party and taken their followers along with them. Worse yet, the rebels have...
...independence struggle, experience as a former chief minister of the highly industrialized state of Maharashtra, which includes Bombay, and an excellent record as a Cabinet minister. He was originally summoned to New Delhi and given the Defense post in 1962 by Jawaharlal Nehru, who needed a replacement for Leftist Krishna Menon in the dark days after Red China's attack. Chavan rammed through an effective rebuilding of the army. Now he was clearly out to rebuild the Home Ministry's gentle image. His first major orders in his new job were to prohibit a student demonstration...