Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When he resigned last week at 71, he did it in true Menzies style. Playing out his drama with the skill of an actor, Sir Robert resigned not once but four times-to Parliament, his party, the Governor General, and finally to the nation on television. "I have given careful thought to my future in the light of what seems best for the government and country," he "said. "I can no longer sustain the very long hours of work which once delighted me. My pace has slowed down. In short, I am tired...
When members of his coalition threatened to rebel, he yanked them into line by the sheer force of his personality and his ruthless tongue. So deadly was his sting in Parliament ("The conducted tour of the Honorable Member's mind would have been more instructive if it had not taken place in gathering darkness") that opposition backbenchers were once cautioned against needling him. To a parliamentary complaint that he had a superiority complex, Menzies could only agree. "Considering the company I keep in this place," he snapped, "that is hardly surprising...
...Girl." The father's wish seemed fittingly fulfilled last week. Into the oak-paneled central hall of New Delhi's Parliament House?where Nehru himself had guided India's fate for 17 years?glided a hauntingly attractive woman, her black hair streaked with grey, her brown eyes moist and mellow. On her brown shawl she wore a rosebud, just as Nehru had always worn one as his talisman of grace and hope in a sometimes graceless and hopeless land. Her hands held palm to palm in the traditional Indian greeting of namaste, she approached former Finance Minister Morarji Desai. "Will...
Even as Indira spoke, a crowd milled outside the round Parliament building. For days, the result had been a foregone conclusion, but the crowd nevertheless anxiously awaited confirmation...
...Health Minister, and will probably stay on as Indira's. A woman is the chief minister of India's fourth largest state. And women are moving into more and more executive positions in Indian business and government. Today there are no fewer than 59 women in India's Parliament, v. only 12 in the U.S. Congress...