Word: rao
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Watson Y. C. Ho Robert P. Burden Richard Cone Ralph Mitchell Howard C. Rachlin John Raper George Fix Nathaniel Carleton Abraham Flexer Peter Persham James C. Thomson Johan Hellebust Myron B. Fiering Charles F. Cleland Wassily Leontief Steve J. Poulos Ronald W. P. King J. R. Mcintosh Basur Rama Rao Lloyd A. Spielman Peter Hepler A. K. Solomon Henry Ehrenreich R. P. Levine Eric Carlson Alexander Dalgarno David R. Walters Carter Wilson Charles A. Whitney Richard McCray William Alfred Charles W. Burnham Charles G. Gross Gerald M. Platt Howard B. Emmons D. A. Harnett Irving J. Rein Peter S. McKinney...
Approximately 20 minutes before curtain time, men and women in blue jeans and work shirts began walking slowly, slowly onto the curtainless stage of Paris' Theatre National Populaire. There they stood or sat, meditatively waiting. At 8:30, Indian Musician Nageswara Rao appeared, carrying his vina - a long, gourd-based stringed instrument, much like the sitar popularized by Ravi Shankar and Beatle George Harrison. For a quarter of an hour, the vina mewed and whinnied while no one moved. Then things began to come to life...
...part of the folk culture of much of the world." It was while he was doing graduate work in ethnomusicology at U.C.L.A. in 1962 that Ellis grasped the jazz potential of the complex, repeated beat cycles underlying Asian and Middle Eastern music. With Indian Sitar Player Hari Har Rao, then a member of the U.C.L.A. music faculty, he formed the Hindustani Jazz Sextet to explore musical passages to India; two years ago, he launched his big band...
...control of eight of India's 17 state governments and dropped 82 seats in the lower house of Parliament. Hoping to deal Indira yet another blow, seven opposition parties, ranging from far-rightists to Peking-lining leftists, rallied behind a single candidate, former Supreme Court Chief Justice Subba Rao, a staunch Hindu. But the vote, conducted in the state assemblies and na tional Parliament, went to Husain by a solid margin...
...efforts to promote a coalition among the opposition parties in Parliament have been unavailing except for the choice of Candidate Rao. Mrs. Gandhi's principal rival for power, Finance Minister Morarji Desai, has chosen to remain outwardly loyal to her. But on the state level, the opposition has had much better success. It has won control of nine of the 17 Indian states as a result of defections from the Congress Party and alliances among themselves. In Uttar Pradesh, India's most populous state, the Congress government was toppled last month when a minister and 17 other Congress...