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Again, Gandhi fasted. Princes and untouchables gathered in New Delhi to glimpse the dozing little man in a loin cloth, and to hear the latest medical bulletins. This time, however, a jarring note sounded. A small crowd of unsympathetic Hindus and Sikhs began to shout: "Let Gandhi die!" From an automobile lunged Premier Jawaharlal Nehru, who is India's Johnny-on-the-spot as Fiorello LaGuardia was Manhattan's. Cried Nehru: "How dare you say that? Kill me first!" Nehru chased the dissidents down the street. Inside, Gandhi dozed...
...many a plush hotel where the British dinner jacket once gave the evening scene the aspect of a penguins' conclave, the dhoti (loin cloth), sherwani (tunic), jibba (smock) and achkan (long coat) now held pride of place. Rohini Kumar Chowdhry, Assam's long-haired, wild-eyed member of the Constituent Assembly, demanded a special clause in the new Constitution's bill of rights to forbid any hotel displaying "Evening Clothes Only...
Gandhi, dressed in a newly starched khadi loin cloth, with a white cotton shawl over his bare shoulders, drove in a new, green Studebaker to Jinnah's stucco house. Acting the part of Qaed-e-Azam (Head of the Nation), Jinnah sent his secretary to greet Gandhi at his car, waited inside the house for his first private meeting with the Hindu leader in three years...
...Wrong. Eddie Williams, buyer of the prize steer, sticks to his figure of $1,250 a pound for choice top sirloin. He estimates that he will get roughly 34 pounds of top sirloin from the animal. But Williams' calculation does leave out the revenue from beef ribs, chuck, loin butt, etc. which he will sell at regular prices; this should come to nearly...
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