Word: nehru
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been obvious for months that Jawaharlal Nehru was in failing health...
More and more, Nehru was forced to take to his bed with internal disorders...
...temple town of Bhubaneswar, 220 miles southwest of Calcutta, where 10,000 delegates, officials, newsmen and hangers-on were gathered for the Congress Party's 68th annual convention. Bhubaneswar had worn a festive air. Green, white and saffron party flags fluttered from hundreds of flagpoles, and pictures of Nehru and Mahatma Gandhi adorned shop windows. On his arrival, Nehru was so weak that aides had to lift him from a helicopter, and when he finally was able to walk, he shuffled away with back bent and head bowed. At a flag-raising ceremony, his words were almost inaudible...
...outright plus a $105 lifetime annual pension-to anyone who "traces or helps in tracing" the relic. From New Delhi came two senior Indian police officials to help authorities in Srinagar, which is in the Indian-held half of disputed Kashmir. In Pakistan, India's Prime Minister Nehru was blamed as "the real thief," though the press also hinted that the "satanic" plot might have been "conceived in the so-called intellectual cells in a faraway Western capital," meaning Washington. Indians were equally sure that the affair was a Pakistani scheme to incite Kashmiris against them...
With typical tolerance, Bombay supports the left-wing tabloid Blitz, which recently published pictures to "prove" that Lee Oswald did not shoot President John Kennedy, and also the right-wing tabloid Current, which flays Nehru and his nonalignment policies. Even Bombay's teenagers have a magazine that features Elvis Presley, twist instructions, and such articles as "Are Kissing Dates Dangerous?" Bombay is headquarters for the nation's movie industry, which turns out some 300 feature-length films a year. A recent and elaborate movie wedding in Bombay drew 10,000 guests, but none of them were considered...