Word: mahatmas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...paid no heed. Whether she wore a Cassini evening dress or a Tassell gown-all duly recorded by reporters-Jackie shone even among the colorful saris of the Indian women around her. When she slipped off her shoes and put on violet velvet slippers to visit the memorial to Mahatma Gandhi, Chicago Daily News Correspondent Keyes Beech was quick to peek inside the shoes, triumphantly cabled home: "I can state with absolute authority that she wears 10A and not 10AA." So clothes-conscious were the newsmen that they even asked U.S. Ambassador to India John Kenneth Galbraith who had designed...
...four night spots are now flourishing with topical jokesters. Manhattan's The Premise has just opened a Washington outpost, where distinguished audiences (including, on occasion, Vice President Lyndon Johnson, Senators Hubert Humphrey, Mike Mansfield, Kenneth Keating, "Scoop" Jackson) have been neighing in the aisles while a performer playing Mahatma Gandhi turns over slowly in his grave after Nehru tells him about Goa, or Chief Sun Cloud, a new Senator from Wyoming, calls up the admissions committee of the Cosmos Club and the committee chairman sighs. "If it isn't one thing, it's another...
...Party has been the most influential Indian political organization, today controls 373 seats in the Lok Sabha. In the years of the British raj, Congress kindled the fires of independence, gathered under its banners peasants, landowners, untouchables, maharajahs, Communists, capitalists, liberals and reactionaries. Only the massive national appeal of Mahatma Gandhi and the united determination to oust Britain from India kept the catchall party together. But the Congress became so ingrained in the Indian consciousness that the party did not fall apart after independence came in 1947. The various elements that made it up stuck together to reap the rewards...
Kripalani scoffs at Menon's and Nehru's pretensions about India's vital role in advancing world peace. An old Gandhian, Kripalani declares that the Mahatma was wary of Menon and suspicious of his influence on Nehru. Says Kripalani: "Menon's defeat will change the course of Nehru's Cabinet and en courage the best men in it to make a stand against Jawaharlal...
...economic benefits that it will reap from the former Portuguese colony, a few rumbles of discontent arose last week over India's resort to force. They came from a respected source: venerable Chakravarti Rajagopalachari, 82, leader of the conservative Freedom Party, close associate of Mahatma Gandhi, and the only Indian to serve as Governor General of his country...