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...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...
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...
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...