Word: vegetarian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...three, Shastri, 59, a vegetarian and teetotaler who rose through Congress Party ranks to become one of Nehru's most dependable lieutenants, has the best chance of becoming Deputy Prime Minister. He is an honest, inoffensive politician with the smallest number of political enemies. Nehru will probably cling to the title of Prime Minister, but it was Shastri whom he summoned after his illness with the plea: "Please help me. You will have to carry on my work...
Swimming to School. A tiny, wizened vegetarian and teetotaler who stands only 5 ft. 2 in. and weighs a mere 105 Ibs., Shastri* has never been out of India. As a schoolboy he was so poor that he swam the Ganges daily with his books strapped to his head because he lacked boat fare. During India's struggle for independence, Shastri spent a total of seven years in jail, once fasted so long that his weight dwindled to 72 Ibs. He entered the Cabinet in 1952 as Minister for Railways and Transport, a decade later became Home Minister...
...Cumballa hills. Bombay's sleek women, who set India's fashions, wear slacks by day as they whip about the city in sports cars, and are lovely by night in sheer, gold-encrusted saris. The new and old rich frequent the marble-floored Willingdon Sports Club, where vegetarian diners are discreetly noted by chalk marks on the backs of their chairs, and gather on Sundays for horse racing at the Western India Turf Club, where a sign at the entrance displays an untypical bit of Bombay intolerance. It reads: "South Africans not admitted...
Died. Symon Gould, 70, founder (in 1948) and 1960 presidential candidate of the American Vegetarian Party, who militantly opposed the killing of animals for sustenance, sport or style...
...Women are meant to be childbearing, not fur-bearing"), once ticked off celebrated Vegetarian Bernard Shaw for "breaches of the vegetarian faith" because Shaw was taking liver-extract injections; of cancer; in Manhattan...