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...million Untouchables more like his rejects. Nearly 38 years after Gandhi launched his campaign to erase Untouchability, God's children are still locked in bestial poverty and ignorance. "Even after two decades of independence," Prime Minister Indira Gandhi admitted last week at a Congress Party meeting in Dehra Dun, "Untouchability persists." India, she said, must "hang her head in shame...
...season afternoon. Adjudant-Chef Robert Garros, 34, stopped his Jeep and looked back. A long funnel of dust stretched out behind his platoon's four battered, dun-colored weapons carriers. His 35 legionnaires were tired and filthy, their faces caked with white dust. After a moment, Garros, a muscular barrel of a man with 14 long years of tough service in the legion, raised his arm to signal the advance. With the Jeep in the lead, the four weapons carriers rumbled ahead side by side and raced over deep elephant tracks into a village of conical straw huts...
They are neither. As a result, the book is engorged with minutiae that might better have been left in the filing cabinet. Much of it is Dun & Bradstreet; the Bouviers' commonest denominator seems to have been a preoccupation with getting and spending. Getter No. 1 was Michel, a cabinetmaker from the Rhone Valley, who fled France after Waterloo to settle in Philadelphia and accumulate a tidy fortune in real estate. Getter No. 2 was one of his sons, Michel Charles. With his brother John, he bought seats on the New York Stock Exchange right after its reorganization...
...commercial photographer from Baton Rouge, La., ran into financial difficulties while setting up his business in 1957 and had to defer payment on various accounts. He has since become successful enough to buy-on credit-an airplane for his business, and Dun & Bradstreet rates his borrowing capacity at about $35,000. But three months ago his wife was unable to charge two cans of paint for the family swimming pool because of the eleven-year-old local credit-bureau report...
...revenues, to 37,000 suppliers, three-quarters of whom employ fewer than 100 people. As for profits, G.M. freely conceded that its return on invested capital has been more consistent than that of other auto manufacturers in recent years. Nevertheless, the company noted that a 1966 Dun & Bradstreet survey found that companies in 19 of 71 categories had a higher return on "tangible net worth" than...