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Scraping & Pruning. Ever since it became apparent that India's overambitious second five-year plan was more of a bite than India's unmobilized resources could chew (TIME, Aug. 5), resourceful Finance Minister T. T. Krishnamachari has been doing his best to 1) reduce the scope of the plan itself, and 2) attract the foreign capital, government or private, that the country needs to keep going. Three weeks ago, while Nehru was still diligently distilling euphoria from the plan's prospects...
...tournaments she might have won, after the jitters that kept her from titles she should have won, the match that meant most of all was astonishingly easy. On the slick and tricky turf of the West Side Tennis Club at Forest Hills last week, husky, lightfooted Althea Gibson (TIME, Aug. 26) breezed through the finals of the U.S.L.T.A.'s national championships just as surely and easily as she used to win paddle tennis games on the streets of Harlem...
...like-minded sister, Cornelia Evans, 56, a writing consultant to the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Their book has the same zestful flair that turned Bergen Evans into a national TV personality as the earnest, rapid-talking moderator of CBS's The Last Word (TIME, Aug...
...materials and design," Connecticut General executives fanned out over the country, picked S.O.M.'s Gordon Bunshaft and William S. Brown, the team that had designed Manhattan's medal-winning Lever House (TIME, April 28, 1952) and Manufacturers Trust Co.'s Fifth Avenue branch (TIME,' Aug. 31, 1953). In crewcut, hard-driving Gordon Bunshaft, 48, the insurance company rapidly discovered it was dealing with a stubborn, topflight designer, with a no-nonsense approach. Architect Bunshaft, who keeps one eye cocked on Corbusier's concern with related forms, the other on Mies van der Rohe...
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? Frank Tashlin's hilarious spoof of Manhattan's television-advertising industry; with Tony Randall as Rock. Jayne Mansfield as herself (TIME. Aug...