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...rest of the material on war, and there is unfortunately a great deal more, is best left undiscussed. Lampoon humor appears sharpest when allowed to wander outside the constraints of the particular topic. Cartoonist David McClelland, for example, is funniest when he is being irrelevant ("Where is Krishna Menon now that we need him?"), which happily he is often...
...Patil, a leading member of the party's kingmaking "Syndicate," was unseated by a 36-year-old former dock worker. Surendra Tapuriah, the young man who modeled his hairdo and politics after Bobby Kennedy, won by a landslide. To a younger candidate, too, fell fiery old Leftist Krishna Menon, 69, in a defeat that undoubtedly ended his stormy political career...
...such a fast pace because her party is in its deepest trouble since India won independence from Britain in 1947. Always an unwieldly conglomerate of everything from conservative businessmen to dreamy leftists, the Congress Party is suffering from an attack of election-eve defections. Fiery old Leftist Krishna Menon, India's onetime Defense Minister, has bolted the party after failing to win its nomination for Parliament from Bombay, is running as an independent. Key leaders in six other states have also broken with the party and taken their followers along with them. Worse yet, the rebels have somewhere...
...President Johnson, U Thant and Ho Chi Minh. Each for different reasons. I. S. MENON, M.D. Royal Victoria Infirmary Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England
...struggle, experience as a former chief minister of the highly industrialized state of Maharashtra, which includes Bombay, and an excellent record as a Cabinet minister. He was originally summoned to New Delhi and given the Defense post in 1962 by Jawaharlal Nehru, who needed a replacement for Leftist Krishna Menon in the dark days after Red China's attack. Chavan rammed through an effective rebuilding of the army. Now he was clearly out to rebuild the Home Ministry's gentle image. His first major orders in his new job were to prohibit a student demonstration in New Delhi...