Word: indianized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many economic experts, both Indian and foreign, feel that the second five-year plan was unrealistic and overambitious from the outset. For one thing, the plan's framers drew it up on the assumption that foreign loans and investments would cover a $1 billion-plus shortage. Because of this, there was no real effort to force domestic production into exports to help make up at least part of the deficit. Also, worldwide inflation has already boosted the original estimated cost of the plan from $10 billion to $12.6 billion. A less tangible but equally important reason for the plan...
...goods on a deferred-payment plan-at 8.5% interest. Russia and Eastern European satellites, on the other hand, have been quick to inform India that they are eager to grant deferred payments-and at only 2.5% interest, a political price which U.S. observers feel is significant (though direct Russian-Indian trade is at present only 3.2% of India's overall foreign trade...
...good reporter (on the Boston Post, 1909-17, the Saturday Evening Post, 1919-37) when he switched to full-time writing of historical fiction, ingeniously and accurately ("I think that most historians . . . should have stuck to farming") tracked down his background for realistic, robust tales of the French and Indian wars (1754-60) and the Revolutionary...
...Delhi, where he had come to chat with Italian embassy officials, chubby Charmer Roberto Rossellini was restive: "I am fed up. I feel like murdering newsmen." Told that the Indian government had granted a passport to his scriptwriter and fast friend, Sonali Das Gupta, he said he planned to stay on in India for the present. In Paris, apparently unmoved by the news, his wife Ingrid Bergman had a happy, tearful reunion with pretty, 18-year-old Jennie Ann, her daughter by Dr. Peter Lindstrom. Ingrid showed the wide-eyed girl the Lido, the Louvre and Versailles, lost her temper...
...world already knows well the sorrows and dangers and heroics that went into Great Britain's rise from disaster to victory, and needs no somber reiteration of them. Better, perhaps, to be able to smile now when told that the British collected assagais, ancestral sabers, golf clubs, and Indian Mutiny rifles, and chuckle when reminded that only yesterday the Germans were hatching elaborate plans for kidnapping the Duke of Windsor out of Portugal. For beneath the fun, Fleming makes clear how narrow was the margin of victory...