Word: prasad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seats in the new state assembly, account for 162 of its 280 seats--a total that would have formed a comfortable absolute majority for the party had it stayed united. Similarly in Bihar, the man who has been sworn in as the new Chief Minister, is Mr. Mahamaya Prasad Sinha, the leader of Jana Kranti Dal, a breakaway wing of the state Congress. Again, the coalition which has captured power in Orissa consists of the Jana Congress or People's Congress, a breakaway splinter of the state Congress and the Swatantra or Freedom Party...
...example, Dev Prasad Kumar, special representative of the Statesman, New Delhi and Calcutta, "will concentrate his study in international affairs on the history and politics of India and plans to make a comprehensive study of the development of Nepal, Sikkim, and Bhutan...
...year-old Indian girl named Nancy Prasad was grabbed last week from her sister's arms at Sydney airport, bundled into a car and driven away. It was no ordinary kidnaping, for within 15 minutes the sister, Shasti Powditch, got word that Nancy was safe and would be returned as soon as the plane she was to board had taken...
...kidnaper turned out to be Charles Perkins, an aboriginal student at Sydney University who early this year led "freedom riders" through New South Wales to protest discrimination against Australia's dark-skinned aborigines, who number nearly 80,000. Perkins saw in Nancy Prasad an even more dramatic way to argue his case. In 1962 the child had come to Australia from Fiji with her father on visitors' visas. The father returned to Fiji when his visa expired, but Nancy was allowed to remain for medical treatment. The courts turned down an appeal that the child be allowed...
Died. Rajendra Prasad, 78, India's first President (1950-62) and devoted disciple of Mahatma Gandhi, who gave up a law career in 1917 to join Gandhi's nonviolent independence movement, endure 4½ years of British imprisonment, and ever after led a rigidly Spartan life of vegetarianism, 3 a.m. yoga exercises, and daily sessions spinning cotton, the symbolic task that characterizes a Gandhian follower; of pneumonia; in Patna, India...