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...state of emergency that she had proclaimed. This time the issues are more diffuse. Opposition parties charge that the Congress leadership has become corrupt and insensitive to the public welfare. In addition, there are powerful local controversies. In Andhra Pradesh, for instance, the movie star turned politician N.T. Rama Rao won a stunning victory for his new Telugu Desam party, advocating increased powers for the state's Telugu majority. In Delhi, many Sikhs vowed to boycott last weekend's elections, thereby showing their support for the movement that is advocating greater autonomy for the rich agricultural state...
...clear that Mrs. Gandhi had lost - badly. Nearly everywhere, Congress (I)'s candidates were trailing well behind opposition party members. In Andhra Pradesh, they were routed by followers of a new political party, founded last March by one of India's top movie stars, N.T. Rama Rao, 60. N.T.R., as he is known, campaigned from the back of a renovated 40-year-old Chevrolet, and beneath giant copies of his old movie posters, in favor of greater local autonomy. Never attacking Mrs. Gandhi by name, N.T.R. delivered a simple message: "India's leaders in their pursuit...
Outraged, he caricatures her in his cato-rama as a snobby imbecile. They meet to fence and soon mend fences. Admittedly, Guardino is a palpable charmer and could probably break the social ice at the North Pole. Sporting bar-buddy camaraderie with Sam's poker-playing pals, Bacall romps through One of the Boys. Inexplicably, inevitably, the pair weds, spats, splits and reknits - how old-hat can you hope...
...instruction still keeps two bookmobiles on the road each summer. This summer they distributed some 40,000 books, embracing 800 titles, at a cost of $40,000. The intent is mainly to stir a love of reading in children. According to Rosemary Hurst, coordinator of the Indiana Read-A-Rama program, it works fine. Children heckle teachers to tell "when the readmobile is coming." After a visit, local librarians report an upsurge of business...
...people who live on there long after the town's reason for being has gone. Trains only whistle as they chuff through Claypool these days. Such a place, in raw reality, provides precious few events to rally the folks into community. The brief stop of the Read-A-Rama provided just such an event, producing, by chance, a good day for all and enough poignant memories to fill a book...