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...Gandhi's appeal this week. It might well have ruled in her favor, but Mrs. Gandhi was taking no chances. With most opposition members absent in protest or prison, Parliament passed legislation that rewrote the very laws under which she had been convicted. "This bill," declared Mohan Dharia, a former Cabinet Minister who was ousted last March after a dispute with Mrs. Gandhi, "is a surrender of parliamentary democracy to the coming dictatorship...
...parliamentary elections that returned her to office for a second term. As a result, she was barred from her seat in Parliament and disqualified from holding elective office for six years. Her lawyers immediately announced that they would appeal the ruling to the Supreme Court, and Justice Jag Mohan Lai Sinha issued a stay of 20 days pending the appeal. Even if it is overturned, Judge Sinha's decision is likely to have far-reaching consequences for Prime Minister Gandhi. As the Times of India put it in an editorial, "The immediate impact will be to detract from...
...works of literature, the Guinness Book raises as many questions as it answers. Why did that compulsive swallower own 39 nail files? Did he have 39 nails? Or did it have anything to do with the 55 1/2-inch total length of the nails on the left hand of Murari Mohan Aditya of Calcutta, India, who "has given each nail a separate name"? Here is a problem that must be left to future researchers--for the Union Catalogue in Widener lists no critical essays on or editions of the Guinness Book. In addition to its other records it is the world...
...find that I like cold countries now," said Newscaster Lowell Thomas last week as he celebrated his 79th birthday. "The heat takes it out of you." The heat isn't all that does it. At Miami's Crandon Park Zoo, where he was visiting Mohan, a 1,500-lb. rhinoceros that he had helped to capture, Thomas turned to talk to the keeper while feeding his rhino friend some greens. Mohan munched the greens and went right on munching until he was lunching on Thomas' trousers. "I was lucky," said Lowell. "If he had got hold...
Lucknow's Ved Ratan Mohan, 36, for instance, is India's biggest distiller. But in a nation where opposition to drink is strong and prohibition varies locally from state to state, Teetotaler Mohan has balanced his beer, gin, rum and whisky with breakfast foods, apple juice and catchup. Arvind Mafatlal, 43, who as oldest brother became chair man of Mafatlal Gagalbhai after his father's death eleven years ago, is leading it away from textiles and into more profitable chemicals. He has undertaken joint ventures with both Shell and Montecatini, has a $140 million expansion program under...