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India's progress is watched closely by other underdeveloped Asian countries to see if democratic methods can match or outdo the harsh methods of Red China's Communists. In 1960, the honors went to India...
...every day, creating disorder and danger wherever you move? How can you talk of colonialism when you are surrounded by your puppet dictators . . . ?" Then he got down to the matter at hand: "This is no time to say that we can outtalk or outshout Mr. Khrushchev. I want to outdo him-outproduce him." Later, in Nashville, Tenn., Kennedy emphasized a point: "I want to make clear that nothing I am going to say is going to give Mr. Khrushchev the slightest encouragement. He is encouraged enough...
...Aquanauts (CBS), a new series, turned out to be sea-horse opera of the first water about a pair of professional divers. The first episode got them into a struggle to outdo another diver in collecting manganese deposits off Hawaii. It could have been so much submarine corn if the show had not been crisply written and cleanly shot, and well swum by Actors Keith Larsen and Jeremy Slate. Aquanauts' chase scenes take on an odd, ballet quality 35 fathoms down, and the special language of the skindivers is at least less rusty than the dialogue that comes...
...ruling quarters" and the "savage, man-hating ethics of Allen Dulles & Co., placing the dollar, this yellow devil, higher than human life." By way of defense, Powers' court-appointed attorney. Mikhail Grinev, who makes a good living losing cases he is expected to. tried to outdo the prosecution in attacking the U.S. Powers, he said, "should be joined in the dock by his masters, who attend this trial invisibly." Grinev in friendly fashion had told Powers' parents that "social factors are very important with our judiciary" and in his argument he stressed the family's hardscrabble hill...
...vocation. Graham Greene used this simple fact of religious life with searing effect in The Power and the Glory. In his second novel, Author William Michelfelder, onetime reporter on the New York World-Telegram and Sun, cannot stand comparison with his master, but he tries to outdo him in compassion. Greene's whisky-drinking, fornicating priest in revolution-torn Mexico could only try to make amends by persisting in God's work at the risk of his life. Father Bowles, the sinner of Michelfelder's Be Not Angry, is let off almost scot-free: since his vocation...