Word: menon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seats in Parliament, and despite an array of eight opposition parties ranging from the Communists to the free-enterprise Swatantra (Freedom) Party, stands in no danger of losing control. The Congress itself embraces a broad spectrum of political coloration, from the virtual Communism of former Defense Minis ter Krishna Menon through the proAmericanism of Railways Minister S. K. Patil to the Hindu mysticism of the party's reactionary wing. But basically it retains much of the socialist stamp given it by Nehru. A small circle of Congress politicians known as "the Syndicate" currently dominates the party...
...more than a year ago, India's ruling Congress Party has been plagued by what Delhi euphemists call "fissiparous tendencies." Put more bluntly, many's the politician who lusts for Prime Minister Lai Bahadur Shastri's job. Among the splittists: left-leaning ex-Defense Minister Krishna Menon; sloe-eyed Indira Gandhi (Nehru's daughter), Mrs. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit (Nehru's sister), and former Finance Minister Morarji Desai, 69, who was Shastri's chief rival for the prime ministry. Last week at Bangalore, Desai made his play...
...nation's TV sets, he could be seen siting before a picture tube of his own smoking incessantly while he commented on the guided tour that had been arranged in elaborate detail. Liz Taylor, Marilyn Monroe, Rocky Graziano, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor and Krishna Menon opened their homes to Murrow. And it was on this program that the dour newscaster was first observed to laugh over...
Despite all of India's gigantic problems, Shastri seems to be off to a fair start. His opponents in the Congress Party, ranging from Morarji Desai on the right to Krishna Menon on the left, are likely to give him several months' grace before they start rocking the boat. And after 17 years of Nehru's aristocratic rule, the mass of the Indian people appear to regard Shastri as representing a return to the homey, close-to-the-soil leadership of Gandhi...
...successor, but that possibility, to all intents and purposes, is out. A more serious prospect is that she may become India's Foreign Minister; left-wingers want her in the job, hoping that she would follow the policies of her old but discredited friend Krishna Menon...