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...NEPAL: invaded by 5,000 Communist Chinese technicians who are nearing completion of a $9,800,000 road linking Chinese-occupied Tibet to the Nepalese capital of Katmandu...
Food & Factories. Even more alarming to the economists is the fact that population is growing five times as fast as food production in Asia. The output of food is actually dropping in India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, South Korea, Iran and Nepal. The average Asian eats little more than he did in 1939, and hunger is a constant gnawing companion of about one in four. At present rates, food output in the area will rise only 5% during the next decade, but the U.N. figures that it must increase about 60% if Asians are to eat enough...
When it was built on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue and 58th Street in 1927, the $18 million Savoy Plaza became one of the world's most luxurious hotels. A favorite of aristocrats, diplomats and cinema stars, it has been host to the likes of the King of Nepal, Adlai Stevenson, William Scranton, Prince Bernhard of The Netherlands and Groucho Marx. The Savoy also captured the fancy of a darkly handsome British real estate tycoon named Max Rayne. Two years ago he bought one-third of the hotel from William Zeckendorf, later bought the whole thing when Zeckendorf became...
...foreign affairs, Shastri may seem provincial, since he has only once been beyond India's borders, and then only to neighboring Nepal. In a nation so divided by religion, language and regionalism, his great strength is his ability to bring people together. When a volatile language dispute broke out in Assam, Lal Bahadur quietly worked out a settlement. When the Sikhs campaigned for a separate state, Shastri was able to talk the Sikh leader out of a planned fast unto death. "I listen to different viewpoints. I have the capacity to understand them. I keep an open mind...
Fecund Frenchwomen. The boat ride tired De Gaulle, and when he returned to Paris, a scheduled Cabinet meeting was put off 24 hours. But after a day's rest, he not only presided over the meeting but played host to King Mahendra of Nepal. Later in the week, De Gaulle received a delegation of 14 mothers who have given his "100 Million Frenchmen" campaign a boost by bearing big families, also welcomed a papal legate on hand to help celebrate the 800th anniversary of the Cathedral of Notre Dame...