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This translation of the article has been made in order to give English speaking readers a chance to inspect a compact but rich and skillfully presented array of negative images and ideas about America. The article is a particularly powerful one because it presents America in the most concrete form, that is, in specific episodes and in the words and actions of actual organizations and individual Americans who are identified by name...
...Americans scatter around the workshop. They spend a long time asking the workers about wages, vacation periods, children. Robert Bowers is busy with one thing: he is running from machine to machine to inspect the trade marks...
Just to see that all was fair and square, jowly Playboy John Jacob Astor III notified a New York court that he would exercise his right to inspect the will of his half-brother Vincent Astor (TIME, Feb. 16), who left $2,000,000 to his widow, bequests of $827,500 to friends and relatives, the bulk of a great estate (at least $100 million) to charity. To nightclubbing John, whose easy-go ways have barely dented an easy-come $70 million or so, Philanthropist Vincent left not one cent...
...lunch with the Maharajah of Jaipur, a picnic tea at the deserted Moghul city of Fatehpur Sikri, a moonlight visit to the Taj Mahal, a visit to Chandigarh, the city designed by Le Corbusier, and a polo match in Delhi. From Bombay, Bangalore, Madras and Calcutta, Philip will inspect everything from ancient cave sculptures to an atomic energy plant. But one of his unstated missions was something else: to find out just what sort of reception his wife would get should she come to India...
...profits will go to the people." The ban on liquor sales stayed in effect until week's end, but reformist zeal could not entirely suppress the Cuban love of life. As tension gradually eased, the shaggy warriors from the hills began leading awed Havana girls to inspect their free (normally $30-a-day) rooms in the Hilton and Nacional Hotels...