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Demonstrating that she was "not merely [Nehru's] daughter but a person in her own right," Mrs. Gandhi introduced her own sweeping ten-point program for transforming India into a socialist democracy. After she nationalized 14 private banks, angry Congress Party elders expelled her. Mrs. Gandhi promptly formed her own New Congress Party and in September, 1970 she reduced, then eliminated the privileges and privy purses of maharajas-a relic of British Empire days that was then costing the government about $6 million a year...
...Administration the Fair Deal. Not Great. Not Big. Just Fair.) Without that extraordinary scheme for giving, the Marshall Plan, Western Europe might never have survived as a community of free, capitalist democracies. A case could be made that the civil rights movement began with Truman's tough, ten-point message to Congress in 1948, which created the Federal Fair Employment Practices Committee. It also created the Dixiecrat movement, which cost him the 39 electoral votes of four Southern states in that year's election...
...first half of the Tufts game was quite different. Radcliffe jumped out to quick ten-point lead, never threatened by the same Tufts team it had beaten earlier this year. Thal (21 points), Fulton (19), and Guyton (15) paced a well-balanced attack that Tufts could not stop...
...verdict of the contest was never in doubt as Radcliffe opened up with a press which left Brandeis crying for a change of venue. The press was called off by coach John McCarthy as soon as his squad had built up a quick but solid ten-point lead...
Boston spotted Atlanta a quick ten-point lead, before storming back behind the play of Havlicek and Paul Silas, who netted 21 points. Silas also grabbed 24 rebounds on the evening as Boston evened its record...