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...heart attack; in Toronto. Chapin's spare, muscular style, which he called "environmental realism" developed during five years of sketching the Marvins, a hardscrabble New Jersey farm family he lived with in the mid-1920s. Beginning in 1955, he painted dozens of TIME covers, including Adlai Stevenson, Jawaharlal Nehru, Boris Pasternak and Edward Hopper...
...been previously banned and sealed their offices. Estimates of those detained ranged from 5,000 to 20,000. Internal censorship of information has become so tight that quotations from the works of India's national heroes-including Mohandas Gandhi and even Mrs. Gandhi's father, Jawaharlal Nehru-must be vetted before publication...
...Narayan, 72, at the head of her list of political opponents to be arrested two weeks ago, she must have been struck by the irony of the situation. "J.P.," as he is known to almost everyone in India, was the grand old man of Indian politics, a confidant of Nehru and Mahatma Gandhi, and someone she had known since she was a child. In 1942, when she was imprisoned without trial for her efforts in the "Quit India" campaign to drive out the British, Narayan became a national hero-and one of the British Raj's most wanted criminals...
...minor Bihar state official, Narayan at the age of 19 used a $600 wedding gift to set off alone to the U.S., where he studied at Berkeley and the University of Wisconsin and became a convert to Communism. Returning to India, he became deeply involved with Gandhi and Nehru in the independence movement. Still, he was not an advocate of Gandhi's principles of nonviolence and organized a guerrilla force to disrupt rails and communications and foment strikes and riots...
Following independence in 1947, he grew increasingly disenchanted with party politics and even spurned offers by Nehru to join his Cabinet. Explained Narayan: "The party system, so it appeared to me, was seeking to reduce the people to the position of sheep whose only function was to choose periodically the shepherds who would look after their welfare...