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...British India. With India's independence and its partition into Hindu and Moslem nations. Moslem Suhrawardy, instead of going to Moslem Pakistan, toured Bengal with Mahatma Gandhi and tried to put an end to the bloody post-partition riots between Hindus and Moslems. (This, however, failed to endear him to Hindus, who charge that he had helped to provoke the Bengal riots in the first place...
...that American Express's President Reed doesn't read his own pamphlets on tourist etiquette. He advises tourists to be "ambassadors of good will" and, you say, realizes that Americans do not endear themselves to foreigners by spending money. Yet he rollicks through Germany and Italy in a plush, private railway car, and tries to prime the British economy with his lavish gratuities. MAURICE H. OPPENHEIM Mannheim, Germany...
This engine has many qualities that may endear it to Detroit and the motoring public. Like the gas turbine engine, it will run on the lowest grades of fuel, will even run on peanut oil. It needs no crankshaft or connecting rods, and it has so few rotating parts that friction and wear are far less than in standard piston engines. Furthermore, unlike the gas turbine, its turbine wheel runs cool, hence does not require costly heat-resistant alloys. General Motors has no immediate plans to produce the free-piston engine. But G.M.'s engineers hope that its debut...
Good Will Ambassadors. Realizing that Americans do not endear themselves to foreigners merely by spending money, Reed also admonishes tourists to be "ambassadors of good will." His company passes out booklets setting down Reed's thoughts on tourist diplomacy (sample thought: "Everywhere the tourist is creating an impression...
Last month, in a move hardly calculated to endear him to HICOG, Clark accepted the chairmanship of a bar-association committee investigating wiretap allegations against the Conant administration. He also attacked a new law, signed by Conant, requiring special HICOG permission before German officials can be called before U.S. courts...