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...quite willing to compete with them for the friendship of India." With all the talent, affability and wile at their command, Soviet Communism's two traveling salesmen plunged into the competition last week. In legislative halls and banquet rooms, at ancient shrines and new construction projects, in plush drawing rooms and crowd-crammed streets, with merry quips, tough speeches and promises tossed out like rose petals, they wooed the great uncommitted mass (1,140,000 sq. mi.) and minds (356,891,-624 people) of the world's second most populous nation. With their mission less than half done...
...agile Premier Edgar Faure, a wily practitioner of parliamentary maneuver. After squeaking through three confidence votes in less than three weeks, each time constructing his majority from a different grouping, Faure hoped that new elections might give him a working majority. The possibility of prematurely losing their plush red seats filled Deputies of all parties with dismay. One of them argued that elections before Christmas would be cruel because voting usually takes place in schools, and "our schools are never adequately warmed in December." Children, he seemed to be arguing, may be subjected to cold but not voters...
...diverse club is plush Storyville, which frequently features such performers as Dave Brubeck and "Wild Bill" Davison (appearing next week). Its range of transient musicians (which has also included ballad-singer Josh White) and the club's usual minimum puts Storyville in its own special class, although its present show is very similar musically to Boston's new rhythm form...
...trouble holding its top position. Last year Coke's net earnings dropped 8% while other companies' jumped (Pepsi-Cola's by 13%). In January of this year, Coke and D'Arcy tried a new sales approach, kicked off a big ad campaign featuring models in plush surroundings instead of home-town folks in corner drugstores. Trade magazines promptly kidded Coke for being years behind Pepsi-Cola. When Coke began introducing bigger bottles, Pepsi remarked: "It's fun to be followed-to be recognized as the leader...
...Eyes Are Better. As N.A.H.B.'s President Earl Smith proudly showed the Russians his plush new Washington headquarters, Kozuilia gave more evidence of his skill at oneupmanship. Learning that Smith sometimes spends twelve hours a day in the modernistic office, the Russian said: "The Soviets believe that when you sit in your office it is less profitable than when you spend time outside on the building projects." Replied Smith: "Oh, but I keep in touch by using the telephone. I'm on the phone a great deal." Sternly, Kozuilia ployed: "The phone is all right, but the eyes...