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...summer-when-I-was-in-Paris genre. But, althouph he over-writes, Davis succeeds where others in this issue fail; in "City of Statuary" he links together several strains of imagery. So too Ruth Whitman's "I Laugh in Russian" knits at least three strands of metaphor in a compact but highly readable form...
Kirloskar-"S.L." to his friends-is a compact (5 ft. 6 in., 150 Ibs.) man of 61 with bird-bright brown eyes and a penchant for gay-toned bow ties. After graduating from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1926, he got his little family-owned motor company to branch out into planters, seeders and harrows, invented a machine that speeded peanut shelling by 600% . Kirloskar has been branching out ever since, often by collaborating with foreign manufacturers. He runs his empire of nine scattered plants and 11,000 workers with a light hand. "I direct by invisible authority," he says...
...installments, have become so widespread that 65% of all department-store sales are now charged. Many stores are also encouraging today's affluent teen-agers to take out special charge accounts. To speed the wheels of the credit society, an Alexandria, Va., firm last week introduced a compact electronic system called Credac that will check a customer's credit within ten seconds when fed the number of his charge account...
...Unlike compact little England that once ruled them, India and the U.S. are each vast, multiracial, federal democracies that boast supreme courts and written constitutions. Until this month, however, India differed from the U.S. in one vital respect: its constitution was thought to give its legislatures the same freewheeling power as that of Britain's House of Commons-a power to jail critics for contempt with no judicial review whatever...
China's first operational nuclear force will probably have a limited range. Morton H. Halperin, assistant professor of Government, estimated that within three or four years the Chinese "will probably develop bombs compact enough to put in the few bombers they have...