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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sticks to salwars, a homespun shirt and a white Gandhi cap for his high bald crown. He is Panditji-literally, Mister Scholar -to his people. To most of them his Cambridge speech is unintelligible, nor is he himself quite at ease in the Hindu vernaculars. The mass of Indians cannot read his prolific English writings. Nonetheless, he has followed in Gandhi's footsteps as a popular national hero...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Anchor for Asia | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

...sometimes think the American public doesn't understand very much about diplomacy. These things are not discussed with ambassadors-and they cannot be discussed with the press. And you can quote me on that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Anchor for Asia | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

...shall take care not to align ourselves with one group or another ... remaining neutral on those [questions] not affecting us directly . . . India obviously cannot join either of the two blocs . . . What she desires is an understanding between Russia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Anchor for Asia | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

...communication." Last week the B.I.S. had a record 580 members, including such philosophical well-wishers as George Bernard Shaw. The most active members are scientists from Britain's great research laboratories. Said one of these undauntedly: "So far, the whole [high altitude rocket] program is American. We cannot afford to sponsor direct development. But even if we have nothing but pencil and paper, we intend to keep at the problem." Space Suit. With pencil, paper and soaring imagination, Britain's rocketeers are not afraid to tackle any of the problems of space travel. On exhibition at the technical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Out Across Immensity | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

...this form of the disease, rarer but far deadlier than spinal polio, the virus attacks the bulb or brain stem. The iron lung often will not work on bulbar polio because the patient's breathing is jerky. with an irregular rhythm; his intake and release of air cannot be synchronized with the iron lung's regular beat. But bulbar polio has one feature which fitted in well with Dr. Sarnoff's theory: it generally leaves the phrenic nerve undamaged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Electric Lung | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

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