Word: temperance
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...stamped her sandaled feet and threatened to report hecklers in her audience to her pitaji (daddy). At 48, Indira has largely outgrown that sort of thing. The left-wingers may still be enthusiastic about her, but she is better balanced. Menon seldom comes to call, and Indira keeps her temper reined...
Indira is also likely to temper her policies to fit the thoughts of the three men she seems to trust most. They are Food Minister Subramaniam, Defense Minister Chaven and Economist Asoka Mehta. Like her, they are all Socialists, but in 18 years of experience, they have seen that socialism is not always a cure, and is sometimes a curse for India's problems. By inclination, Indira prefers public ownership of plants, but her chief economic adviser, Asoka Mehta, is fully aware that government-owned factories have proved to be far less efficient than private enterprise in India. Indira...
...with his successful though costly battle to make U.S. Steel roll back an announced $6-per-ton across-the-board price hike in 1962. On that memorable occasion, Kennedy simply felt that he had been double-crossed by U.S. Steel Chairman Roger Blough, and he lost his Irish temper...
Crowther denies that his food-raising for the Bantus had any political motivation, but now his temper is up. "The church has to oppose this government," he says, "because what the church stands for and what this government stands for are totally different concepts of the doctrine...
Hard on the Hearing. Auerbach's temper is legendary: when the Celtics blew a six-point lead against the New York Knickerbockers one night recently, he called a time-out and gave them a dressing down in full hearing of practically everybody at Madison Square Garden. "Oh, did I blow," Red recalled last week. "I chewed them out like they've never been chewed before...