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...debate by sticking to the abundant facts collected by the U.N. Special Committee on the Problem of Hungary (TIME, July 1). He did not shout or become vituperative; he was not "pursuing this subject in a spirit of cold war"; he argued that "we do not condemn the doer but the deed." And the reason the subject was introduced again was that Puppet Premier Janos Kadar has kept none of the glib promises he made after Soviet tanks crushed the revolt last November. Soviet troops have not been withdrawn; nor has the promise of no reprisals been honored. From incontrovertible...
Lockless Canal. De Lesseps was a doer in private as well as public life. He married twice and fathered 17 children (the last when he was 80). At the age of 74 he eagerly met the challenge of Panama, and the result was a fiasco. Age had bred in him not mellowness but arrogance. Yellow fever, corruption and his own stubbornness (he insisted on building a canal without locks despite the mountains and rivers the waterway must cross) ruined the project after ten years of exhausting labor. De Lesseps was forced to admit defeat, and only the selfless courage...
...from the newspaper (which has already telephoned me for your name) to send home to Belgium for the family scrapbook . . . Charity in action is easy to give. It has witnesses. Everyone sees it. Everyone is touched by it. Even in the world, a visible act of charity singularizes the doer, often even brings fame of a sort. But charity in thought. Sister, that silent, invisible, unremitting love that always places others first and the self last . . . that is what you lacked today...
...Doer. Officially, Jawaharlal Nehru is not only India's Prime Minister but Foreign Minister and Minister of Atomic Energy as well. Unofficially, he is India's chief planner, chief policymaker, chief reformer and universal straw boss. Proud of his command of English (developed at Harrow and Cambridge), Nehru will sign no letter prepared by anyone else, and he personally dictates the great bulk of cables going to Indian ambassadors abroad. His Cabinet ministers have long since become accustomed to being awakened in the middle of the night by "urgent" Nehru messages complaining about an unpainted government housing project...
...four wives to cook everything he ate and to massage him with oil every morning. For the Indian Who's Who he provided his own modest biography: "In spite of having monumental achievements, Dalmia views them with a sense of detachment, always realizing that he is not the doer of what he has done, but that in him God has fulfilled himself...