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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru needs to relax, he stands on his head. This is not the exotic mysticism of the fabulous East but a practical way to drive off fatigue and make up for lack of sleep. Last week, as Nehru left New Delhi for Washington on one of the century's most important visits of state, his secretary discussed head-standing with U.S. newsmen: "Perhaps the Prime Minister will demonstrate this for your President Truman...
During the Asian Relations Conference of 1947, when the audience became noisy and unruly, Nehru descended from the speaker's stand, shoved down people in the front rows until the crowd calmed down. Then he got back on the platform and listened to Gandhi make a speech on nonviolence...
...officials in the four-power city control board had lately consented to a joint battle against the potato bug. They agreed that East & West should honor each other's postage stamps-and then urged the West Berliners to buy stamps cheaper with soft Soviet marks ("Every agreement we make, we lose," lamented a U.S. official...
...Chile rates ace-high with the U.S. President Gabriel González Videla's democratic regime appeals to the State Department because it seeks political stability. Its well-conceived, well-prepared blueprints for national resources development make sense to U.S. lending agencies and Point Four planners. Result: since the war the U.S. has lent Chile a total of $86.7 million...
Last month, when Harry Truman appointed Martha Lucas as a U.S. delegate to the Paris UNESCO conference, Sweet Briar suspected she might not stay much longer at the college she had helped to make one of the best in the U.S. Sure enough, last week, President Lucas sent word from Paris that she would resign next June. Chatting with newsmen before taking the boat train enroute to the U.S., she said she next wanted to write a book on the philosophy of religion which might help to "bridge the gaps of understanding that separate the peoples of the world today...