Word: complexing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Frenchmen took special pride in paying off $200 million on a debt to the International Monetary Fund ahead of schedule, piled up their first trade surplus with the U.S. in 60 years, and grew so confident that one Belgian banker remarked: "The French no longer have an inferiority complex growing out of their defeat in the war and their economic troubles. In fact, they have just the opposite...
...secrets of Europe's success is that the war forced the Europeans to build a new production base and incorporate the latest U.S. advances. West Germany's Daimler-Benz had to rebuild almost from scratch, estimates that 80%-90% of its mammoth complex (1959 production: better than 260,000 units) is new since World War II. France's booming aluminum industry boasts that its technology is second to none. Italy's Pirelli tire and rubber company claims the same. Led by Germany and France, the industrial nations of continental Europe have boosted their gross national product...
...hours National Guard cavalryman, punched cattle in Mexico summers to stay in shape. At 36 he reorganized New Jersey's Spicer Manufacturing Co., maker of the first successful universal joint for autos. By the time Spicer was renamed Dana Corp. in 1946, it was a Toledo-based complex of five thriving auto-parts companies. Net sales last year: $168.5 million...
...sense, he had been preparing ever since his arrival in India two years ago. The job: a TIME cover on Prime Minister Nehru. The challenge: to cope with the opinion of Indira Gandhi and other sophisticated Indians about reportage on one of the most populous and perhaps the most complex nations upon the face of the earth...
...tramped the dusty roads of Bombay state with Land Reformer Vinoba Bhave, hunted rhino in Nepal, lunched with the Wali of Swat, prowled the lower depths of teeming Calcutta, saw Tibet's Dalai Lama soon after his flight to India. Above all, Connery had concentrated on the complex man who personifies India today. Beyond many interviews-"He is enormously generous with his time and has never refused to answer a question"-Connery time and again crossed footsteps with Nehru in unlikely places. In Afghanistan last September, when Nehru was touring a model village, he noticed a familiar figure inspecting...