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What may be the end of the line for the Nehrus and Gandhis may also rid India of the cult of personality and the stranglehold of centralized power. When Indira was elevated to the Congress presidency in 1959, Nehru was the first to abhor the prospect of a dynasty. He later told an American interviewer, "I am not capable of ruling from the grave. How terrible it would be if I, after all I have said about the processes of democratic government, were to attempt to handpick a successor. The best I can do for India is to help...
...CRITIQUE of the knee-jerk TV critics will probably be a bit hard for them to swallow. But before they set out on their self-righteous campaign to rid the planed of this menace, there are some other people they should consult...
...mean 'laid-back.' " Kaz, for his part, found the relationship between boss and worker hard to fathom. Used to bowing when meeting a superior, he now greets John Morse, the third-generation Montanan hired to run the Lazy 8, by shouting "Hi, John!" "Yeah, Kaz, you guys gotta get rid of that junk," says Chaffin, offering a lesson in American egalitarianism between bites of a roast beef sandwich. "People who run things aren't any better than us. They just make more money...
Enclosing the Castle would rid Cambridge of a nasty eyesore. Trapping the 'Poonsters would rid Harvard of a barbaric horde of cold blooded assassins...
...says coming into the ring too slim would be a mistake. He's teasing. He does that a lot, making it easy for reporters to laugh. Call him a fatted calf, call him a freak show, and he chuckles. "I like being me," he says now. "I have gotten rid of all problems like leaves hanging off a tree. If an old man like me can come back from the dead, then that is a victory for mankind...