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...already been opened, exposed to the weather and carefully plucked over like boxes of fruit. Because they feared searches at roadblocks and airport customs, the refugees carried with them only the barest of personal belongings, often chosen in haste: a tennis racket, tape recorder, kitchen clock or guitar. Sakaria Rajendra, a student, wore 20 elephant-hair bracelets to give to people in England. One family, luckier than most, smuggled out a diamond valued...
...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...
...cremated in 1948. 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...
Hans Gresmann, political editor of Die Zeit in Hamburg, will discuss the issues and personalities in the upcoming Brandt-Adenauer election campaign. Other speakers will be Aslam Siddiqi, Chief Information Officer of Pakistan (on the "Ideology, Security, and Development of Pakistan"), and Duraiswamy Rajendra, Deputy Comissioner of Local Government in Colombo (on "The politics of Evolution" in Ceylon...
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...