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...Mahatma Gandhi and the united determination to oust Britain from India kept the catchall party together. But the Congress became so ingrained in the Indian consciousness that the party did not fall apart after independence came in 1947. The various elements that made it up stuck together to reap the rewards of political power. "Not a few of them cashed in heavily on freedom," says Indian Editor Frank Moraes. "For them independence has meant patriotism, plus...
...Elections." Despite the overwhelming popularity in India of Nehru's Goan "conquest," and for all the economic benefits that it will reap from the former Portuguese colony, a few rumbles of discontent arose last week over India's resort to force. They came from a respected source: venerable Chakravarti Rajagopalachari, 82, leader of the conservative Freedom Party, close associate of Mahatma Gandhi, and the only Indian to serve as Governor General of his country...
...President of the Philippines, Diosdado Macapagal, has long appealed to the electorate as a tao (common man) who will never forget his humble beginnings. "I come from the poor. Let me reap for you the harvest of the poor. Let us break the chain of poverty. Let me lead you to prosperity!" he cried at his campaign whistle stops. "I have sat at the sumptuous tables of power, but I have not run away with the silverware...
...increased by an average of 3% a year, rising in recovery periods to 7.5%. But in this year's economic bounce-back, productivity has soared by a remarkable annual rate of 9.5%. Chief explanation of this sudden leap, Government economists believe, is that industry is finally beginning to reap the rewards of its free-spending investment in new plant, equipment and research during the late 1950s...
...cowed," said Secretary General Shigesaburo Maeo of Japan's ruling Liberal-Democratic Party, "but must reaffirm our determination to continue resistance against such inhuman conduct." Said Philippines President Carlos P. Garcia: "If Russia does not stop her defiant disregard of the feelings of entire humanity, she will inevitably reap what she has sown." Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan spoke for the entire free world when he said: "If Khrushchev's reason was to spread panic among our people, then he has signally failed...