Word: prasad
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Most frequently, however, the foreigners observe that U.S. exports last year were only 4% of the gross national product. "The way to make the U.S. economy healthier is to export more capital goods," says Indian Industrialist Shanti Prasad Jain. Agrees a Belgian banker: "The saturation of the U.S. internal market has not inspired a sufficiently aggressive drive to find markets abroad...
...Visiting a home for vagrant boys in Delhi and the children's ward of a hospital, she made her first namastes-the Indian palms-together greeting-and tried out her Hindi ("What is your name?"). She also paid a call on India's President Rajendra Prasad at the presidential palace in New Delhi, and though she ate Western food during most of her trip, gamely dug into chicken korma and alu-mattar, washed down with spiced orange punch...
Indian Astrologer Acharya Keshav Dev predicts that Feb. 3 will be the beginning of an East-West nuclear test competition that should lead to war by 1970. The astrologers of Nepal foresee more immediate consequences. Mani Prasad Ti-wari predicts political changes in China, possibly a revolt in Nepal, natural disasters in Russia, and "civil disturbances" somewhere southwest of Washington, D.C. Nepalese Field Marshal Kaiser Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana, an amateur astrologer, expects at least an earthquake near by, and foresees another disturbing possibility: "I would not be surprised if this heralds the coming of a new age in which...
Fifty years ago her grandfather had been the last British monarch to visit India. Stolid King-Emperor George V had to be reminded by his viceroy to wave to the populace so as to elicit the cheers befitting the occasion. Last week India's President Rajendra Prasad recalled pointedly that, back in that day, "the circumstances were different." But the unfond memory was not permitted to mar his granddaughter's visit. Although observers rated the welcome accorded President Dwight D. Eisenhower as more spontaneously enthusiastic, the pomp and the grand occasions befitting an empress were not denied Elizabeth...
...some Indians the visit had merely jogged remembrance of things thankfully past. Said President Prasad: "Our relationship with the United Kingdom is a part of our own history of the past 200 years. The British impact on India has in many ways been an abiding one." But now that they were free, many Indians were ready to acknowledge that the British may have ruled too tenaciously but not without fondness-and, at times, even rather well...