INDIA: Rising Pressure

Gnarled little 72-year-old Mohandas Gandhi has recently lost seven pounds. Last week he was down to around 90. Doctors who visited his whitewashed hut in the mud village of Sevagram said that his blood pressure was rising, that hard work and the blazing Indian heat were exhausting him. They advised a fortnight's rest.

Gandhi at once began working harder than before. He received the Indian National Congress Party Working Committee to discuss ways of continuing to protest British rule. Among those present: huge, bearded Abdul Gaffar Khan, a Moslem who spends his life preaching Hindu Gandhi's nonviolence principles to the...

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