Word: uttar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dutt, who works a 13-hour day, now has $153 million worth of contracts, has twice moved his offices into larger quarters. Unlike many Indian businessmen, who will hire only natives of their own state, Dutt has collected 50 crack engineers from Punjab, Bengal, Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh. Says he, in words that could have come from Harry Kuljian himself: "If you have the ability, Kuljian will...
...India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, keeping in anxious touch with developments while making a tour of Uttar Pradesh, the fast-and the whole Sikh effort-presented a number of galling ironies. In the first place, fasting as a political weapon was developed by Nehru's nationalist mentor, Mahatma Gandhi, but is now regarded by New Delhi as in bad taste. Secondly, to justify keeping Master Tara Singh in jail without proof of crime, Nehru a month ago had to insist on a further extension of the same Preventive-Detention Act passed originally under British rule to allow...
...minds of today's young men are a madhouse," wailed Chief Minister Sam-purnanand of Uttar Pradesh, one of India's foremost amateur astrologers. No longer, he complained, can "every young woman walk the streets with the confidence that every young man she meets will be as a brother to her." An indignant college professor joined in. "Individually as well as in groups," he complained, his students "discuss the proportions of maidens, their adipose tissues and their coy looks." And the coeds? "Bearing and dress publicly shout at you: 'Come and look at me.' " 50 Screams...
...Uttar Pradesh, two policemen were victims and an elephant dropped dead in its tracks. A doctor fell dead while visiting Delhi, and his wife succumbed at home in Allahabad...
...last week, India's change of attitude was beginning to pay off. Americans were all over the place. After getting over their first horror at poverty and squalor, many enthused over the opportunities, and over a spirit of cooperation in the government that they had not anticipated. In Uttar Pradesh, Kaiser Aluminum and India's Tycoon G. D. Birla were about to break ground for a new $42 million plant that will more than double India's present 18,000-ton aluminum capacity. South of New Delhi, Goodyear was putting in a $12 million tire factory; Firestone...