Word: india
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...meet that challenge, New York-born, Harvard-educated Don Connery, 33, had traveled through more of India than most Indian journalists. He had tramped the dusty roads of Bombay state with Land Reformer Vinoba Bhave, hunted rhino in Nepal, lunched with the Wali of Swat, prowled the lower depths of teeming Calcutta, saw Tibet's Dalai Lama soon after his flight to India. Above all, Connery had concentrated on the complex man who personifies India today. Beyond many interviews-"He is enormously generous with his time and has never refused to answer a question"-Connery time and again crossed...
...filled report to be handled by a skilled writer who on his own time has written short stories and three novels (latest: The Notion of Sin), and who could, out of his own experience, make contributions to what TIME hopes Indira Gandhi will consider an accurate portrayal of changing India...
...Turks officially accorded him their "full confidence." And as the President of the U.S. flew on next morning in his jet to Pakistan, Afghanistan and India, such renewed confidence rode with him, along with his own personal spirit and purpose...
...murderous skirmish last October in the windswept wastes of Ladakh province may have done more than anything else to bring Asia to what Jawaharlal Nehru calls "one of those peak events in history when a plunge has to be taken in some direction." The gunfire in Ladakh echoed through India. Instead of shouts of "Hindi Chini Bhai Bhai!" (India and China are brothers). New Delhi's streets resounded with the clamor, "Give us arms! We will go to Ladakh!" The Red Chinese embassy was stoned, the All-India Students' Congress called for a "Throw Back the Aggressors...
...India felt both angry and alone. The ruthlessness of Red China's behavior made a wreckage of some cherished convictions. There was no longer confidence that 1) Asian solidarity, created at the Bandung Conference, would outlaw the use of force, 2) Indian neutrality and nonalignment with "military blocs" would gradually lead the Communist and non-Communist worlds to mutual understanding, 3) the repeated pledges of "peaceful coexistence" by Peking meant that Red China was worthy of joining the U.N. The national disillusionment was so great that even Prime Minister Nehru took off his rose-colored glasses, looked hard...