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...captivated by her beauty," warned Socialist Dr. Ram Lohia. "Inside she is pure venom!" He further claimed that Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, 64, retained her youthful good looks only because she had undergone plastic surgery in Europe...
...lifting made little impression on the emaciated peasants of Phulpur, a district in northern India, 16 miles from Allahabad, which ever since 1952 had loyally returned the late Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru to Parliament. In last week's by-election, the empty seat was being contested by Madame Pandit, Nehru's younger sister, who had the full backing of the dominant Congress Party, and Socialist Lohia was on hand as a lifelong enemy of the Nehru family. In 1962, Lohia personally fought for the seat against Nehru and was soundly trounced. Last week he was backing a local...
While a ceremonial fusillade of firecrackers sounded outside, a black-capped Brahmin pandit recited Sanskrit prayers last week in a factory conference hall at Poona, outside Bombay. It was the time of year for worshiping Lakshmi, the Hindu goddess of wealth and prosperity, to whom all wise Indian businessmen annually offer their order books for a blessing. With his workers during the ceremony, his feet bare and his forehead glowing with a dot of vermilion, sat Shantanu Laxman Kirloskar, the U.S.-educated head of India's Kirloskar group, a seven-company combine that sells $46 million worth of farm...
When she was a girl, Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, 64, younger sister of Jawaharlal Nehru, awoke from a nap outdoors one day to find a cobra looming over her, its great hood spread. Soothsayers promptly foretold a remarkable career for her-and that she has had, as India's Ambassador to the U.S.S.R. (1947-49), the U.S. (1949-52), and first and only woman President of the U.N. General Assembly (1953-54). Now eight times a grandmother, and Governor of Maharashtra state, Mme. Pandit has been chosen by the Congress Party as their candidate in next month...
INDOOMATI PANDIT Kolhapur. India