Word: northerns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...commission's plan (see map) is to reduce India's 29 states to 16, all of them with a full measure of local government: four northern Hindustani-speaking states (Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan), two southern Telegu-speaking states (Andhra, Hyderabad), one state each for eight other languages, and two bilingual states (Punjab, Bombay). New Delhi fears harsh reaction to any changes, particularly in Punjab, with its proud Sikhs. Reduced to a minority (32%) among Hindi-speakers in an enlarged Punjab, the Punjabi-speaking Sikhs may turn their resentment into violence when the map-changers...
...white turban and blossom-festooned, Tennessee's wide-ranging, head-geared Democratic Senator Estes Kefauver, probing his way rapidly around the world, settled down for a brief moment in the northern Indian town of Ratangarh. chuckled admiringly at the local fruits of the U.S.-India technical cooperation program...
...Board of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. approved an exchange visit of church leaders between Russia and the U.S. in the indefinite future. The proposal, said Council President Dr. Eugene Carson Blake of Philadelphia, stated clerk of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (Northern), came originally from the Russians. After communicating with Patriarch Alexei of Moscow and the U.S. State Department, Dr. Blake said, he expects a Russian delegation of Baptists, Lutherans and other Protestants, as well as representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church...
...believe that the following is sufficient to show that we Southerners agree 100% with our Northern friends...
Maine to Mexico? The new highway-skirting Akron, Cleveland and Toledo-connects the Pennsylvania Turnpike with the one now being built across northern Indiana. By next fall motorists and truckers will be able to drive 812 miles, from Manhattan to Chicago's outskirts, without running into a single traffic light or crossroad. Total toll charges...