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IAGJIVAN RAM has a lumpy, 5-ft. 5-in. frame, thick features and ears that fairly bristle with hair. He is an Untouchable, with roots in the lowly chamar (leatherworkers) caste. Yet, as Congress Party president, Minister for Food and Agriculture, and Indira Gandhi's chief ally, Ram at 61 is one of India's most powerful politicians. He is also one of the very few harijans ever to rise above the ceilings dictated by the caste system...
...referee, one whose jovial personality enabled him to walk the tightrope between conservatives on the university's board of regents and in the San Diego community on the one hand and his own liberal campus on the other. "I'm a gentle soul, but my skin is thick," he says...
...refinery near Machiasport. Another company, King Resources, acquired 300 acres on Long Island in Casco Bay, where it planned to build a huge oil-receiving and storage terminal. At first glance, the projects looked like a bonanza. But few Maine residents rejoiced wholeheartedly. The state's famous thick fogs and treacherous coastal waters made oil spills from tankers a probability-and a potential disaster to Maine's fishing and tourism industries...
...playbill there was an article entitled "The Media Men." It listed a great number of familiar people, including Vice-President Agnew. But it left out Mr. Buchwald, who, if not for his columns, is revered as the sweet bumbling man with the frumpy suit and thick glasses who found it hard to talk about the death of Robert Kennedy on television. As did a great number of other media men. The article didn't seem to feel that the media men were very talented, but that they are easily devoured and replaced by a voracious public. I for one would...
...ecological changes have already been detected. An aerial survey along a 30-mile stretch of beach recently counted only 200 grebe, compared with the past population of 4,000 to 7,000. Divers have discovered large patches of sunken oil that lie in gooey ribbons up to six feet thick along the edges of the reefs. Gray whales migrating from the Bering Sea to Baja California are avoiding the Santa Barbara Channel, once their main route south...