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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mistakes of overplanning, India has had a better time of it economically. The sterling balance has risen about 8%, and the government recently liberalized its laws concerning foreign investment, tempting some U.S. and British firms to get in on the ground floor of a nation where there is only one watch for every 40 people, one bicycle for every 125, and one camera for every 50,000. The recovery was fortuitous, for the nation was about to be put to its severest test since independence...
...quarreled with Menon and threatened to leave the army. Nehru talked him out of it. With his hesitant response to China's calculated attack on the Indian patrol in Ladakh, Nehru lost his once unshakable hold on the nation's intellectuals, business leaders and press. With almost one voice, Indians demanded that Nehru defend India's integrity, fire Defense Minister Krishna Menon and, above all, send troops to drive the Chinese invaders from Indian soil...
...Chinese side of the frontier the terrain is equally bad. In fact, the only satisfactory invasion route into India from the north is the one that has been trod since time immemorial by Aryans, Greeks, Huns, Mongols and Persians: from central Asia, through Afghanistan and Pakistan, and down onto the Punjab plain. But that would involve the consent of Russia, as well as war with Pakistan. At the moment the Soviet Union is insisting on its friendship to India and is urging restraint upon Red China...
...Terrible Cracking." At 6 one evening last week, André Ferraud, the dam watchman, decided to open the safety sluices a little, although shortly before, a group of engineers had vetoed such a precaution for fear the overflow might damage the foundations of a new superhighway under construction from Fréjus to Cannes...
...takes her third-from-the-left place in Paris' famed Folies-Bergère chorus line, prances onstage dressed in not much more than a few sequins, a plume, and her smile. Unknown to most Folies patrons, Lydia Lova is in reality 2nd Lieut. Lydia Danuta de Lipski, one of France's greatest Resistance fighters. Last week the French government prepared to add the Legion of Honor medal to the Croix de guerre with bronze star awarded her by General Charles de Gaulle...