Word: nehru
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Henry Adams described the dynamo as modern man's equivalent of the medieval Virgin, and Rudyard Kipling celebrated its strength in Song of the Dynamo. Prime Minister Nehru has urged his countrymen to make pilgrimages to their "new temples": the dams and power plants rising across the face of India. In 1964 the world is hungry for electric power as never before-and is struggling to overcome a shortage of it. From Singapore, where new entrepreneurs hawk the output of 10-kw. mobile generators, to Switzerland, where ancient glaciers help turn turbines as they melt, East and West this...
...somewhat less public scrap, Rowan took exception to a sentence in a joint communiqué that Johnson was to propose to India's Prime Minister Nehru. Warned Rowan: "It's condescending and Nehru won't like it." Johnson forcefully disagreed. But sure enough, Nehru threw the paper on the floor when he read the offending line. Later, Johnson said to Rowan: "You were right. Just keep getting up when I knock you down." Then in obvious reference to the fact that Rowan is a Negro, Johnson added: "But I guess I needn't tell you that...
Center of Gravity. More and more, Congress Party leaders were arguing for a succession arrangement. Many were dismayed at the unofficial bedside power wielded by Nehru's daughter, Mrs. Indira Gandhi; they would like to see her officially installed as chief of the External Affairs Ministry, where her wide knowledge of diplomacy could be put to good use-and where party officials could keep an eye on her. Nehru may soon be forced to elevate to the Cabinet someone who in fact would run the country. Likeliest prospect, and leading candidate to succeed Nehru: former Home Minister Lai Bahadur...
Shastri's major qualifications are that he is personally close to Nehru and that he has almost no political enemies. Bland and self-effacing, he is almost the center of gravity of the Congress Party, is thus an ideal compromise between the party's left and right wings. Shastri is a devout believer in nonalignment, but thinks that India must also forge strong ties to the Western democracies. Though committed to socialism, he is far less doctrinaire than India's stricken leader, says: "We must relieve the misery of the people and raise their economic condition...
...lacked boat fare. During India's struggle for independence, Shastri spent a total of seven years in jail, once fasted so long that his weight dwindled to 72 Ibs. He entered the Cabinet in 1952 as Minister for Railways and Transport, a decade later became Home Minister and Nehru's "architect of compromise." In the last two general elections, he ran the Congress Party's victorious campaign machinery, good training for high positions. Modestly, Shastri insists that he has never sought public office, but admits, "I am not a Sanyasi"-a Hindu who renounces all worldly ambition...