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Prime Minister Nehru once described India as "a bundle of the centuries in which the cow and the 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...
Especially in the House of Representatives, long a sacred cow pasture, the prospects for such substantial changes as these are not nearly as optimistic as they ought to be. The legislature's Republican caucus would not be altogether gratified by the enactment of bills which might prove an effective cure-all for Gov. Peabody's ailing prestige...
...club with which to clip Otto Passman, chairman of the Foreign Aid Appropriations subcommittee, behind the ear. The Committee, which would surely recommend a few minor cuts in expenditure and give the rest of foreign aid its blessing, would at last lend the programs an appearance respectable enough to cow the Congress...
...shoes or clothes. We go to pick mushrooms because we can sell them at the store and bring in a kopek or two at home.' Added another woman sarcastically. 'We don't have to eat at all. I suppose. This is my second year without a cow and it's been pretty...
...place was geared to market needs. Instead of a small onion bed he had a real onion plantation, much better than the ones on the kolkhoz. Then there were cucumbers, potatoes . . . every inch was used." Naturally Petunya refuses to help bring in the harvest. " 'If I had a cow I might, but otherwise, why bother?' The chairman understands . . . Every year thousands of acres of hay are lost because kolkhozniki get only 10% of the hay they harvest. In order to feed his own cow he would have to harvest enough for eight or nine-and that...