Word: nehru
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Architect Stone is defensive about the Galbraiths' complaints: "Why are they carping about these little points? These petty features obscure the truth-they are living in a palace." Stone is right, and even the ambassador concurs in principle. When Roosevelt House was dedicated in January, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru admired its beauty but wondered about its practicality. Rejoined Galbraith: "I urge in reply that utility and economy are the enemies of good architects, and certainly no builder is ever remembered for practicing these traits...
Least Typical. The most successful of the Marwaris is in many ways the least typical. G. D. (for Ghanshyam Das) Birla not only controls an empire of 350 concerns (textiles, automaking, chemicals, banking), but is one of Prime Minister Nehru's closest confidants and a member of and heavy contributor to Nehru's Congress Party. A tall and ascetic man, Birla financed Gandhi, gives enormous amounts to charity, and has opened many schools and hospitals. Many Marwaris, respected only for their business shrewdness, now long for the social standing that Birla has earned for himself, are sending their...
...delivering voluminous written reports for a potentate or an oil magnate. His ability to steer a middle course through the troubled waters of oil disputes has landed him as consultant in such hot spots as Suez and Iran. In 1959, he met privately with India's Prime Minister Nehru, tried to prevent him from being too ambitious in exploring for petroleum with Indian money. Said Levy: "For every oil well you drill. 1,000 Indians will have to go without an education. Your resources are inadequate to do everything you want. So let foreign interests do the drilling...
...willingness to negotiate on these terms, Nehru hopes to stall the Chinese at the conference table until he can get more military aid from the West. Recently, Nehru repeated his urgent request to President Kennedy that a joint Western air mission "get here as soon as possible" to study plans for the air defense of India...
...whip the Commonwealth into a kind of super common market. Composed of 16 nations that are threaded together by a complicated system of preferential tariff agreements, the Commonwealth has a population of 715 million, accounts for 23% of the world's trade. The Commonwealth, India's Nehru once mused, is "a rather strange and odd collection of nations which has found some kind of invisible link by seeing that there is practically no link...