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...soil. In Florence and Milan, the Rockefellers' International Basic Economy Corp. has opened eight supermarkets that the Italians fondly call "the Americano stores"; the Americanos have brought down the price of pasta as much as 40%. In Belgium, Chicago's Jewel Tea and Antwerp's Grand Bazar company have combined to open eleven supermarkets in the past two years, and last fortnight announced plans to open four more. Not only do these Belgian markets dramatically undersell corner grocers (examples: 5? v. 8? for a cake of soap. 52? v. 70? for a pound of cheese), but they...
...more flirting with Communism abroad. "Gandhi often renounced active membership in the Congress Party when he had difficulties," recalled the Free Press Journal of Bombay. "[Nehru] has been unable to conceal his impatience with India's slow progress toward the Socialist State," reported Calcutta's influential Amrita Bazar Patrika...
...sensitive Indians were probably the most bitter. THE WORLD'S CHAMPION BLUNDERER, headlined the middle-of-the-road People of Lucknow, meaning the U.S. "An affront to peace," said the big Times of India. "History will not pardon her [the U.S.]" said Calcutta's conservative Amrita Bazar Patrika, "if humanity is pushed into another holocaust by her myopic politicians." But there were notable exceptions to the cries of grief and indignation. In staunchly anti-Communist Greece and Turkey, pro-government papers backed the U.S. position. In London, Beaverbrook's Daily Express raised a lone voice blaming...
...trail crossed giant mountains, crowding the icy torrent of the Dudh Kosi and soaring on the other side to 20,000 ft. Sometimes by day there were rain and sleet; sometimes there were hornets that can drive a man mad. And so, on March 25, they came to Namche Bazar, the chief of the Sherpa towns...
Runners bore the joyful tidings to the monastery at Namche Bazar. The message flashed to London. On coronation eve, they waked the Queen to tell...