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Faced with the prospect of U.N. withdrawal from the Congo, almost all were suddenly sobered. A major factor was the conversion of India's Prime Minister Nehru, who had refused to send a single soldier to fight in Korea; since then Nehru has seen the Red Chinese in action in Tibet and elbowing at his own frontiers...
...devour the output of 40 million of India's 300 million cultivated acres. "Man eats cows in other countries, but here the cow is eating man," says a Congress party leader. But he says it in private. Calling for more money for more rest homes for old cows, Nehru himself says: "The West does not worship the cow but takes care of it. We worship it but do not take care...
Seized by one of his periodic fits of yearning for a life of contemplation, India's normally bustling Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, 71, indiscreetly confided to a British newsman that it would be "best if I retired-best for me and best for India." So many cries of protest flooded into New Delhi from all over India that the wily Prime Minister was forced to correct the record: "There is no thought in my mind at present or in the foreseeable future of my retiring, so there need be no speculation about...
...Cypriot revolt against the Crown. Flying on to New Delhi, Elizabeth was greeted thunderously by some 1,000,000 Indians who caught their first glimpse of a British ruler since Elizabeth's grandfather, George V, came to India in 1911 soon after his coronation. Somewhat unnecessarily, Prime Minister Nehru called on his nation to welcome Elizabeth warmly-but allowed that should she decide to go tiger hunting, "I am not going with...
Significantly, most of the industrial rise came from the private sector of business, which many of Nehru's socialist-minded planners tend to slight in favor of "public sector" state enterprises. New products manufactured domestically for the first time ranged from chemicals to portable typewriters. Biggest rise in production was recorded by the automobile industry, which turned out 52,115 vehicles in 1960 as compared with 36,923 in 1959. More than a million bicycles were manufactured, and a modest export trade of 10,000 bicycles begun with the Middle East. Steel production rose from 1,800,000 tons...