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"The cow," wrote Mahatma Gandhi, "is the mother to millions of Indian mankind. She is a poem of pity." By tradition and training, many another devout Hindu through the centuries had assumed the same attitude toward the beasts who roam India's city streets and country lanes by the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: The First Roundup | 7/5/1954 | See Source »

In October 1952 the Vicenza experiment got under way. As a first step, MSA sent into each factory an Italian in-plant trainer, generally an engineer trained under U.S. guidance. The in-plant trainer's job is to break down the resistance of foremen and low-level supervisors to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: FOREIGN AID THAT KEEPS AIDING | 4/19/1954 | See Source »

Novelist Masters keeps his melodrama going at top speed with a terrorist plot, an attempted rape, a murder and plenty of political intrigue and skulduggery, and he handles it all with wit and intelligence. Though he does not go to the heart of his characters, at least he manages to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Eight-Anna Girl | 3/29/1954 | See Source »

By the time she is teenage, Sylvia can read the faintest marks and signs of caste as ably as a jungle tracker can read a spoor. But Sylvia, secure in the shelter of her father's wing, enjoys sticking her neck out. It is tedious always to be "Russell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Guiana Belle | 1/11/1954 | See Source »

Pride & Prejudice. Tough, affable Grantley Russell, son of a hall porter but now a well-to-do engineer, regards Guiana's caste system with a mocking grin. The only Englishman in the book, he can afford to be tolerant, promiscuous, and amused by the battle of the pigments. "Goo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Guiana Belle | 1/11/1954 | See Source »

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