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...fact that both India and Pakistan are admitting that differences have mellowed will ease American foreign policy problems in the Near East. Nixon's proposals for aid are indicative of the new respect India is gaining in American eyes as a bastion of freedom, "the battleground of democracy" as he phrased it. Ideally, India would become a little more like Pakistan in its resolute anticommunism and Pakistan more like India in its democracy--thereby ending the triangle of suspicion which has existed between these two powers and the United States...
Dodge said yesterday that the varsity's Intercollegiate chances "look much better than they have for a long time." Although the Crimson has finished near the bottom of the 16-team field for several years, Dodge predicted that "with a break" the team could make the top five this time...
...Better Business Bureau against his "misleading advertising," which promised that size 20s would be squeezed down to size 14s. Mack promoted Slenderella with TV and radio spots, built up sales to more than $20 million in seven years, held business conferences on his 68-ft. yacht moored near Slenderella's headquarters in Stamford, Conn...
...Kaiser plan, masterminded by ten experts who hopscotched the country for six weeks, foresees harnessing the power of the crocodile-infested Volta River to work aluminum plants. First step is to build a 230-ft.-high dam near Kosombo (see map), 60 miles northeast of Accra, then add two satellite dams. They would generate 974,000 kw. (100 times as much as produced now in Ghana), back up a man-made lake that would equal the world's biggest (3,500 sq. mi.), which itself would create a new fishing industry to improve the protein-shy Ghanaian diet. Cost...
When Belgian-born Author José André Lacour outlined his Death in That Garden, he found himself at a writer's disadvantage. The setting was the upper reaches of Amazonia, but Lacour had never been there. So he left his home near Paris and spent three months in Brazil; including ten days on the Amazon-though quite comfortably on a friend's yacht. When his novel was published, one French critic flatly hailed it as "one of the masterworks of his generation." It is not that, but it is still one of the grimmest stories in some...