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Until his recent emergence as a public figure, Sanjay Gandhi was best known to Indians as the designer and builder of a mini-auto called the Maruti, named for the son of the Hindu god of wind. In the past, opposition politicians have charged that Sanjay got preferential treatment in getting a license to manufacture the car, which is now in limited production (cost: $2,800) after eight troubled years of development...
...intricacies of Chinese politics. Recalls Author Theodore H. White, who knew Chou in the 1940s: "The greatest compliment he could pay anyone was to say, 'Aha! At last you're beginning to understand China.'" Unlike Mao, Chou was not a theoretician, but rather a kind of inspired pragmatist?"a builder, not a poet," as his old friend Journalist Edgar Snow put it. Nevertheless, he was a supporter of certain of the doctrines of Mao, especially the Chairman's lifelong campaign to prevent the revolutionary leadership from hardening into a new "revisionist" ruling class. Over the years, Chou became China...
During his 15 years on the Vatican's ecumenism staff, Johannes Gerardus Maria Willebrands has been a skilled, tireless builder of bridges between Roman Catholics and other Christians. Now he faces the equally delicate task of building bridges within his own church. Even while Willebrands retains the presidency of the Secretariat for Christian Unity, Pope Paul VI has appointed the clear-eyed cardinal as the new archbishop of Utrecht and thus the primate of the troubled Dutch Catholic church...
Fluor's formula for success starts with a strong tradition of meeting tight construction schedules-a big attraction because a month's delay on a $100 million project can easily cost the builder $1.5 million. The firm also makes a habit of training local workers to build and run completed facilities, a practice that has been much appreciated by the governments of Greece, Taiwan, Indonesia and South Korea. Partly for these reasons, Iran recently favored Fluor with a contract to build 65% of a $750 million refinery near Isfahan...
...authenticity of the canoe builder is also undeniable. Henri Armand Vaillancourt is a 25-year-old bachelor who lives in Greenville, N.H., and thinks and talks exclusively about canoes. Refreshingly un-Thoreauvian, he prefers Tang to spring water when eating his homemade beef jerky. Vaillancourt is one of the last men in North America to make canoes the way the Eastern forest Indians made them. He is not only the keeper of an art but also an endangered species of American. In his " own beautifully crafted work, McPhee | treats both man and boat with all the respect and admiration their...