Word: quicksands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...elephant trapped in quicksand" is the way Indira Gandhi sometimes describes her ruling Congress Party. During the past few years, the party's dismal performance makes that description seem particularly apt. Indian voters have turned against the once all-powerful Congress Party. In the 1967 state elections, for example, the party lost control of four key states-Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal and the Punjab. In last February's midterm elections in those states, Congress failed to regain its old supremacy. Last week the party developed new troubles: an open power struggle in the leadership...
...austere and inflexible Desai in Indira's favor because he has little voter appeal. But in the event they do, the outcome of a no-confidence motion against Indira might well tear Congress apart. By any odds, the party seemed more firmly stuck in India's political quicksand than ever...
...order any member of the House of Representatives, any officer of the House or any employee of the House to do or not to do any act related to the organization of membership of that House would be for the court to crash through a political thicket into political quicksand...
...Attorney Merle M. McCurdy, mindful of the quicksand of medical testimony in which the Government got mired in the Krebiozen case, was careful to raise no question of the efficacy of the Rand vaccine. All he asked for was a restraining order to stop traffic in the vaccine until-if ever-it is proved safe for human use, found free of contamination, and is licensed for interstate commerce...
TARZAN (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). To establish a native girl as the rightful queen of her tribe, Tarzan (Ron Ely) faces a crocodile, a cobra and quicksand in "The Three Faces of Death." Fate smiles down...