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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dismay of many associates, Shastri's humility is not put on. He stubbornly refuses to do anything that might build up his personal image, even when it could help the country. During last year's food crisis, Shastri decided to forgo rice as a symbol of self-denial. But out of modesty he refused to let the fact be relayed to the rioting people, and the possible impact was lost. Yet many Indians feel that more than self-abnegation is needed to confront grave problems. Says Editor Frank Moraes of the Indian Express: "Leaders have no business being...
...wintry day in 1956, as the youthful baron's plane touched down at Brussels' airport, his brother rushed to tell him that the marble-columned 18th century mansion that had housed the venerable Banque Lambert for three generations had burned to the ground. But the old building had long since become too cramped to contain the mushrooming Lambert operation, which in the past ten years has quintupled deposits to $203 million and added 26 branches. And the fire at last made possible the fulfillment of the baron's dream to build a modern-day palazzo that would...
...high for the eighth straight month; even in the turnover month of August, production is expected to climb 58% over last year. Some auto plants have been working three full shifts, seven days a week, yet still cannot outpace demand. For the full year, U.S. automakers expect to build 9,100,000 cars for the best year in history; that would be 18% more than last year and 65% more than in 1961. Such a spectacular year has 1965 been that to come even near it in 1966 would be quite a feat. Detroit hopes to do at least that...
...Ireland, also prepared to tow a large drilling rig from the British coast into the North Sea, where it will explore one of the world's richest new oil and gas regions. In Bavaria, where it is making its first big move into petrochemicals, it is starting to build a plant that will use Libyan crude to manufacture acetylene and ethylene. In the U.S., the company is about to move beyond its traditional Midwestern marketing area to invade the Southeast with new gas stations...
...have tempted critics to the conclusion that Kazantzakis was even more nihilistic than Nietzsche, and this book can support that view. God is variously defined as a bull, a "bluebird with red talons," the "supreme uncertainty." "Life's true face," says Kazantzakis, "is the skull." The place to build one's home is on the brim of the abyss...