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...hands folded aimlessly at her waist, Indira Gandhi once again became India's Prime Minister with a simple promise to carry out her duties "without fear or favor, affection or ill will." Thereupon she announced a new 18-man Cabinet that will have to deal with the severest problems in India's 20 years of independence. Since most of her enemies in the Congress Party were defeated in last month's general elections, Indira had a relatively free hand in choosing her ministers. As a result, ten of the 18 were new ones. Said Indira: "The Cabinet...
...reporters were respectfully si lent. The night before, in front of 35,460 people in Houston's Astrodome, Heavyweight Champion Clay had made believers out of all but his severest critics by utterly demolishing the man who was supposed to be his toughest challenger: Cleveland ("Big Cat") Williams. Granted, Williams, at 33, was nearly ten years older than Clay, and he was not exactly intact; in 1964, a .357 magnum bullet from a Texas state trooper's pistol had ripped through his stomach, costing him a kidney...
...called into question after he came away from a Washington visit in September without a promise from Lyndon Johnson to reduce the amount of money Bonn must spend next year to offset the costs of maintaining U.S. troops in West Germany. Last week came Erhard's severest shock of all: he found himself in the uncomfortable position of running the first minority government in West Germany's postwar history...
...timely as miniskirts. Even as the Tories were meeting, the Labor government of Prime Minister Harold Wilson announced the first two edicts under the new mandatory wage-price law, which places Britain under the severest economic controls in its peace time history...
...that brought him home from Washington a fortnight ago, Erhard was greeted by a blaze of unsettling headlines. They spoke of closed-door meetings among politicians anxious to get his scalp. His own deputy party chairman, Rainer Barzel, had huddled with former Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, Erhard's severest critic. In a hunting lodge in the Vierherrenwald, Bundestag President Eugen Gerstenmaier had canvassed powerful C.D.U. state leaders on Erhard's strength in their regions. It remained for Adenauer last week to bring it all out in the open with a public endorsement of Gerstenmaier as Erhard's replacement...