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...DELHI, India, Oct. 27-A 10,000-man Red Chinese invasion force was reported driving down a jeep trail from Towang today in a possible effort to break through the eastern Himalayas into India's thickly populated plains of Assam...
...enter Brazil's auto market on a partnership basis and personally guaranteed a $42 million Bank of America loan that provided Willys do Brasil's working capital. But it is due as well to enthusiastic Brazilians who decided that they could switch successfully from assembling imported Jeep parts to actual manufacturing of cars. The odds were long. One visiting U.S. auto executive, after studying the shed where Jeeps were being assembled at a six-a-day clip and learning that Brazil had no parts suppliers, dismissed the manufacturing project with the blunt comment: "You're nuts...
...believe in U Thant's good faith any longer, nor in the Western nations who guaranteed U Thant's plan." For Propaganda. Infuriated U.N. officials in Leopoldville accused Tshombe of deliberately staging the clash by ordering 100 Katanga gendarmes to encircle and attack a Jeep-borne patrol of 20-not 500-Gurkha troops. Though the U.N. commander admitted that "someone might have been hit," Acting Secretary-General U Thant's office in Manhattan called the incident "a cynical effort to gain a propaganda advantage." In any case, the U.N. was the loser. U Thant's plan...
...well have a Republican on his right as well as his left." ··· Stoically stowing away an on-the-run diet of rice trimmed with goat intestines, chicken heads and "thousand-day-old" eggs, Peace Corps Director R. Sargent Shriver, 46, roughed his way by helicopter and Jeep through a 25-day, 10,000-mile tour of the Philippines, Thailand, Malaya, Sarawak and North Borneo to see how his troops were faring. He found them hard at work-so hard that at one Filipino hamlet he got a message from four volunteers saying: "Sorry...
...report on French political and economic developments. Another World War II veteran who served in the same organization recalls reporting for duty, determined to be unimpressed by the Rockefeller name; but his resistance melted when David met him at the airport and carried his suitcase to a waiting jeep. (To this day David makes a fetish of carrying other people's bags for them.) After his Army discharge, David, now 30, began wondering what career to follow. The decision had in fact been made ten years before during a weekend visit to the Ottawa home of an old Rockefeller family...