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Although still the idol of India's millions and an extraordinary crowd-pleaser, Nehru has clearly lost his once unshakable hold on the country's intellectuals, business leaders and the press. As the Bombay Current put it last week, complaining about Nehru's trust in Communist promises: "A time has come in India when the free man is not prepared to stake his freedom on Mr. Nehru's wobbly judgment. The oracle of New Delhi is proving too often wrong in his prophecies...
Patronage & Chuckles. From Batavia to Salamanca to Jamestown, Nelson Rockefeller's polished performance was a crowd pleaser that any practicing politician would have envied. Yet: 1) Rockefeller is a tyro at the game, 2) his background scarcely schooled him for hula hooping and beanie balancing. For Nelson Rockefeller is the grandson of the greatest tycoon of them all, the second son of the nation's most generous and most retiring philanthropist. He is a man who is a Croesus in his own right ($100 million, give or take a million), a man who in 30 years has counseled...
Plastic boats, which were dubious experiments only a few years ago, have become so popular that they accounted for 25% of all boats shown. Most notable use of the new materials was in the show's 50 sleek cruising sailboats. Biggest crowd pleaser: Coleman Boat's new fiberglass, 41-ft. Bounty II, designed by Phil Rhodes, which sleeps six and sells for $18,500, about half the price of a wooden-hull boat...
...Zealand marks. Helped by a following wind, Texan Bobby Morrow ran off a world-record-tying loo-yd. dash (09.3 sec.). New Zealander Murray Halberg also contributed a local record with an impressive 4:02.2 mile ¶Proving just how far professional football had progressed as a crowd pleaser, President Jack Mara of the New York Giants calmly turned down an offer of $1,000,000 for the club that had been bought 30 years ago for $2,500. "The offer wasn't even as high as the bid for Nashua [$1,251,200]," said Mara. ¶There...
...information centers. Special face for Congressional hearings (C) and Boston face (D) may be interchanged and lowered by mechanism (E). Policy-making hand (F) and Back-slapper (G) are also interchangeable. (H) and (I) are necessary for hurried conferences. "(J) holds 'classified' information. White shoe (K) is a crowd-pleaser within the undergraduate set. Deep palm (L) is especially useful during alumni fund drives. Two necks allow the new president to wear two collars and two ties (M) in the interest of a liberal admissions policy...