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Like Mafatlal, other young Indians have entered new fields by associating with foreign companies. Keshub Mahindra, 42 (University of Pennsylvania '47), controls 15 companies that make, among other goods, Jeeps in conjunction with Kaiser, tractors with International Harvester, and elevators with Otis Elevator. Hari Nanda, 48, of New Delhi makes everything from railroad couplers to razor blades, is now manufacturing arm tractors designed in India with French engines and Polish transmissions, as well as a baby tractor priced at $1,000, the cost of three teams of bullocks...
Lungi & Computer. The younger Indians are underpinning their companies with Western techniques as well as partners. Indian family companies always believed in nepotism, found jobs for every relative around. Today's executives bypass their in-laws for professional managers. Keshub Mahindra is proud of the fact that only five of 12,000 employees are related to him; Mahindra has linked his plants with Telex communications, keeps track of production with PERT (for performance evaluation and review technique), which was originally devised in the U.S. to coordinate production of the Polaris weapons system. Charat Ram took the lead in founding...
...India. Their builder, David Brown, 50, Britain's third biggest maker of tractors (after Harry Ferguson and Ford), had stolen a march on competitors. Instead of trying to hurdle India's import barriers on foreign goods, he had signed a deal with Bombay's locally owned Mahindra-Mahindra plant to assemble and sell his machines. After the tractors, Brown dispatched a team of instructor technicians to set up a tractor school in India. Before long, he hopes to have Mahindra-Mahindra making the complete David Brown tractor on license...
...Class of 1946: Alfonso Benavides-Zamora, J. C. Dotson, Joseph Maxwell Feldman, Anthony George Macejunas, Harish Chandra Mahindra, Raul Jose Minondo, Howard Churachill Nutting, and Anthony Valentine Ursic...
Horace E. Thurman of Miami, Florida, and the NROTC was elected President of the Student Council at a meeting last Friday as Daniel P. S. Paul '46 of Daytona Beach, Florida, and Adams House and Harish Mahindra '46 of Washington, D. C., and Adams House were selected for the positions of Treasurer and Secretary...