Word: lais
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Back with the rain came Premier Lai Bahadur Shastri, 59, looking none the worse for his apparently mild heart attack. Bustling in and out of his office, he paid two long visits to President Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, presided over a lengthy cabinet meeting, tartly denied that he had been totally incapacitated while ill, insisted that he had worked seven hours a day at home during the later stages of his convalescence...
Although he had already succeeded to the leadership of India, Prime Minister Lai Bahadur Shastri could not be gin to govern until all that was mortal of Jawaharlal Nehru vanished in the wind, water and soil of India...
...ascetic ex-Finance Minister Desai demanded that he be given a post that would, in effect, make him deputy prime minister and No. 2 man in India. When Shastri countered with the offer of the No. 3 position in the Cabinet, just under that of veteran Home Minister Gulzari Lai Nanda, Desai bitterly refused because he felt "it is not consistent with my self-respect...
...during Nehru's illness told newsmen, "If the Prime Minister has something in his mind, he has not informed me of it." What, then, focused attention on Shastri? His personal honesty, for one thing, and his deftness at conciliation for another. A secret government poll revealed that Lai Bahadur, next to Nehru, was the best-liked, best-known figure in India...
Interpreting Unity. Obviously recalling Chinese Premier Chou En-lai's Cai ro visit only six months ago, Khrushchev tried hard to sound every bit as revolutionary as Peking. He attacked Israel as "an agent of imperialism," supported the Arab policy on Jordan water, tore into the British and their position at Aden...