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...miles from home. In 1959, as a sophomore, 205-lb. Halfback Davis gained 686 yds., scored 64 points-more than all ten of Syracuse's opponents combined-and led the Orangemen to an undefeated season, the No. 1 ranking, and a 23-14 victory over Texas in the Cotton Bowl...
...rostrum by virtue of a widely acclaimed, blistering essay in The New Yorker (TIME, Jan. 4), now in book form under the title The Fire Next Time, Baldwin spared his audiences nothing. He spoke not for himself but for all Negroes to all whites. "I hoed a lot of cotton," he said. "I laid a lot of track. I dammed a lot of rivers. You wouldn't have had this country if it hadn't been for me ... When I was going to school. I began to be bugged by the teaching of American history, because it seemed that history...
...tractor march together." Indian business suffers from, and sometimes profits by, such intermingling. Among those who are mastering the combination is canny Arvind Mafatlal, who at 40 is chairman of a $61.9 million family-controlled business that is spreading out from the mills of India's traditional cotton industry into modern petrochemicals...
...Mafatlal lives with his wife and three children in a swank Altamont Road mansion in Bombay's outskirts, is served by a staff of 65. A devout Hindu, he eats no meat, keeps his own herd of cows to supply his family with milk, and wears simple white cotton from his own mills. Mafatlal and other Indian industrialists of his generation are more civic-minded and less apologetic about wielding great wealth than were their fathers and grandfathers. Since their companies generally thrive despite India's chaotic economic conditions-while many government projects founder because of red tape...
...five-year pact is supposed to increase trade to $160 million this year, to $225 million by 1965 and after that, it all depends on how things work out. Brazil will import Russian oil, wheat, airplanes, tractors and industrial machinery. In turn, the Russians promise to buy Brazilian oranges, cotton, rice, cocoa, plus 60,000 tons of coffee per year-about 5% of Brazil's coffee exports. Being tea drinkers themselves, the Russian's propose to send shiploads of the coffee to Castro's Cuba. And on this point the two countries fell into their first conflict...