Word: nehru
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...They will have to release him. They always do. After all, they had to release Gandhi, Nehru and Nkrumah before they could get a solution." This has been the argument hurled at Britain's Tory government ever since March 1956 when the Eden Cabinet, without the formality of a trial, exiled Archbishop Makarios to the Seychelles Islands for his dealings with EOKA, the Greek Cypriot underground. Last week, in a major gesture of conciliation, the British government accepted this argument. In doing so, it suffered the loss of one of its ablest statesmen and found itself in hotter water...
...which McCrary says is "a carbon copy of one of my old shows"). Last week the McCrarys snagged a performer who had turned Wallace down cold: Negro Singer Eartha Kitt. Eartha talked charmingly about such things as doing "primitive dances" with James Dean, and recalled her recent visit with Nehru. Said Tex: "Nehru is a widower and twice your age; he's demanding, possessive, of another race. Would you marry him?" Eartha: "That's a very silly question. Of course I would if I was inclined to be in love with him. But one or the other...
With an assist from Nehru, who stumped the "safe" district of North Bombay on his behalf, even V. K. Krishna Menon, the sharp-tongued bane of the U.N., won a seat in Parliament. By week's end, with millions of votes still uncounted, the Congress Party held solid majorities in 9 of 13 state assemblies and had won three times as many parliamentary seats (174) as its opponents combined...
...everything went Nehru's way. In the Punjab, one Congress candidate lost a state assembly seat to his estranged wife, who cornered the female vote with detailed accounts of her opponent's shortcomings as a husband. The only serious threat to Congress dominance, however, developed in the impoverished, densely populated Malabar Coast state of Kerala, where the Communists won a plurality in the state assembly. So long as the Reds did not win an absolute majority of the 126 assembly seats, Nehru could-and almost certainly would-keep them out of the state government by invoking "President...
Benares-born Ravi Shankar, a younger brother of famed Dancer Uday Shankar (TIME, Nov. 22, 1948), started mastering his difficult art when he was 18. He has written movie scores and ballets (including one based on Nehru's Discovery of India), is working to modernize Indian musical techniques, i.e., standardize instruments and notation. But he despairs of ever accomplishing true mastery of the sitar. "It is like driving through a mist," he says. "The more you drive, the more you realize the road is still there...