Word: radhakrishnan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...added that Governor Rockefeller spoke of a police force "largely Asian" while Dr. Radhakrishnan said, "Asian-African." Asia would thus be taking the initiative to settle an Asian question, and would be disposed to help keep the peace. But the bigger point is that Governor Rockefeller has made this plan a national and world issue. I congratulate him-a great and brave step. If the present negotiations in Paris should get into a jam, they might turn to this plan...
...said, speaking of Governor Rockefeller's proposal for peace in Viet Nam: "Little of what Rocky said was new" [July 19]. The proposal of Governor Rockefeller is almost precisely the same as the one that Dr. Radhakrishnan, ex-President of India, has been advocating for several years. It may be that Governor Rockefeller and Dr. Radhakrishnan arrived at this plan independently. If so, it strengthens the case for the plan in that two independent sources-one Eastern and one Western-reviewing the same facts, came to the same conclusions. Dr. Radhakrishnan told me that Russia, Czechoslovakia, Japan...
...subcontinent 900 years ago. Last week, in a dramatic repudiation of the ancient animosity, a Moslem was elected for the first time to the presidency of predominantly Hindu India. He is Zakir Husain, 70, a former university chancellor who had been Vice President for five years under President Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, who did not seek reelection...
India's upper class regarded the turmoil with studied detachment. Unfortunately, the fashionable thing to do in India is not to vote. President Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, 78, does not plan to vote, feeling that his position as chief of state requires him to stay above politics-but he failed to exercise his franchise even when he held less exalted jobs. Similarly, many of India's civil servants, editors, intellectuals, and other members of the elite consider it a mark of high status not to cast ballots. The usual explanation is that they cannot find any candidate worthy of their...
...York City U.S.O.'s gold medal "as one who symbolizes the support of U.S.O. by major industries of America"; Vinoba Bhave, 69, Gandhian holy man whose pilgrimages across India have netted 5,000,000 acres of "land for the landless," given a medal by President Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan from Pope Paul VI; Sculptor Alexander Colder, 66, Critic Malcolm Cowley, 66, and Poet Allen Tote, 65, named to the American Academy of Arts and Letters; John N. Heiskell, 92, publisher of the Arkansas Gazette, winner of Arizona University's John Peter Zenger Award for his support of integration...