Word: sushila
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Family planning finally got a friend in Sripati Chandrasekhar, 48, a world-famed demographer who became the new Minister of State for Health. He replaces Sushila Nayar, a cheerful but backward-looking spinster who had never shown any enthusiasm for birth control programs and, in fact, sometimes did not even bother to spend her department's allocated budget. Chandrasekhar, who plans to emphasize the use of the loop contraceptive for women, will enforce an all-out program to reduce India's birth rate. -As for food, the new minister was certain to bring a sense of urgency...
...intermissions in 5,000 movie theaters. For the vast propaganda drive that it needs, however, a mere $1,330,000 has been budgeted. So uncertain is the trumpet for birth control in India that the official most responsible for selling the urgency of contraceptives-Health and Family Planning Minister Sushila Nayar-believes that the best approach is brahmacharya, monklike abstinence...
...grey-haired spinster waved a delicate, S-shaped twist of plastic at her audience of newsmen in New Delhi last week and announced triumphantly: "It's foolproof." What Dr. Sushila Nayar, India's Health Minister, held aloft was a contraceptive device. She was opening Family Planning Week, the start of a new government campaign against the nation's severest problem: overpopulation...
...leadership vacuum does not really exist. Nehru's daughter and chief political troubleshooter, Mrs. Indira Gandhi, claimed that her father had "fully recovered" from the stroke he suffered Jan. 7 and that, at 74, "he is much better than he was six months before the illness." Health Minister Sushila Nayar (who was Mahatma Gandhi's physician) said that Nehru "is in fact his old self, but has been advised not to go back to his breakneck pace of work...