Word: cheerful
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Orators and newspapers sang of Moslem brotherhood and the glory of the nation as Pakistan celebrated its second birthday as a republic. Thousands lined Karachi's streets last week to cheer as President Iskander Mirza, surrounded by his bodyguard of Lancers in uniforms of scarlet, green and gold, drove by in his state coach to preside at a parade of Pakistan's military might, backed by contingents from fellow Baghdad Pact Members Iran, Iraq and Turkey. But beneath the brave fagade, Pakistan was a sick and sad nation...
...Maria." The reaction to Stone's design for New Delhi was a rousing cheer that rolled the full range of the architectural profession, from Mies van der Rohe purists to Frank Lloyd Wright ("The only embassy that does credit to the United States"). Said one U.S. architect, just back from India: "The effect is of the Parthenon, with the pierced marble screen of Delhi's Red Fort and the white of the Taj Mahal. In the sun it's going to tell a terrific story." Cracked Frank Lloyd Wright: "Why not call it Taj Maria...
Pocketbook Optimism. Some newsmen -who as a group are not famed for sunny dispositions-admit frankly that their sudden preoccupation with cheer radiates from the pocketbook. "We don't want to scare our advertisers to death," says Editor Joseph E. Lambright of the Savannah morning News, which last month reported that downtown sales were off 10%, next day ran an advertiser-pressured "clarification" explaining that the slump was caused by the suburban growth. Last week the Nashville Tennessean was pointedly warned by advertisers that its alert coverage of the recession was "bad for business." Newspaper front offices have reason...
...that businessmen were holding back. For the first time in almost three years, the total of loans outstanding in New York City banks fell below the year-ago level. One reason for businessmen's caution was that a fresh batch of Government statistics showed somewhat more gloom than cheer. Manufacturers' sales for January dropped by $400 million, new orders slumped by $900 million, and order backlogs dipped by $1.6 billion - the 13th straight monthly decline. Manufacturers' production went down even faster than sales. Result: inventories were cut $600 million in January v. $300 million the month before...
...School Lie. Leonhard finally came of age in what was surely the world's weirdest school. Even its name was a lie. The No. 101 Technical School for Agricultural Economy at Kushnarenkovo in the Ural region was not what it seemed to be-the boys would never cheer for Good Old Ag. Tech. It was a front name for a Comintern school, training foreign Communists to take over in their old homelands when the Russians won the war. The first odd thing about Tom Red's schooldays was that the hero had to change his name (he chose...