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...romantic alchemy" of a much older, married man, Humorist Ogden Nash wrote a prescription: "Keep on having your gay time, but just keep yourself in hand, and remember that generally speaking it's better to call older men Mister." In 1930, India's Premier Jawaharlal Nehru was serving the fifth of his nine terms in British jails. Wrote he to daughter Indira on her 13th birthday: "On your birthday you have been in the habit of receiving presents and good wishes...
...little Himalayan kingdom. A $21 million economic-aid agreement signed at the same time gave China the right, denied in a previous aid pact, to send in Chinese technicians. With Burma and Nepal thus tranquilized, Red China prepared to tackle its toughest border disagreement, i.e., with Jawaharlal Nehru's India. Much to the uneasiness of India's antiCommunists, New Delhi announced that Chou En-lai's April 19 visit to New Delhi to "talk about" the India-Red China border would not be the simple affair originally supposed. Instead. Chou will bring a staff...
...became Helen's eyes and ears as the two traveled the world to encourage 'and teach the blind and handicapped. Polly helped Helen write My Religion, Midstream-My Later Life, and many articles and poems, served as finger translator when Helen interviewed India's Prime Minister Nehru and President Eisenhower, even went with Helen and described to her movies, plays and football games. Said Helen, 79, when Polly died: "I can only pray that she may soon be among the friends awaiting me in heaven, strong and full of joy in the beautiful work she has done...
...serve the warrant, they were halted by a dramatic order from the governor of Bombay state, suspending the life sentence until Nanavati's application to appeal to the Indian Supreme Court could be heard. Newsmen predictably turned to India's ultimate moral authority: Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. What, they demanded, was Nehru's reaction to this arbitrary flouting of the high court's order? Genially, Nehru admitted that naval headquarters had appealed to him for help, and that he had given "advice" that had resulted in suspending the court's order. Though himself a lawyer...
...about to break ground for a new $42 million plant that will more than double India's present 18,000-ton aluminum capacity. South of New Delhi, Goodyear was putting in a $12 million tire factory; Firestone and an Indian partner plan another at Bareilly in North India. Nehru himself recently laid a cornerstone in Kerala for a tire plant owned in part by the Dayton Rubber...