Word: primed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Slight, pink-cheeked Robert E. Gross, board chairman of Lockheed Aircraft Corp. (prime contractor on the Navy Polaris), registered the common complaint that Government agencies, bureaus, committees, staffs and boards interfere with quick and able decisionmaking. Contractors, he declared, are "bogged down in a labyrinth of advisers advising advisers ... We are often 'helped to death' by the hierarchy of Government agencies." Conflict-of-interest statutes defeat the Government's opportunities to hire the most able civilians for key posts. "We really cannot ask people to come down to Washington as experts for a problem as long...
...India's Jawaharlal Nehru has been the case of Sheik Mohammed Abdullah, the strapping (6 ft. 2 in.) "Lion of Kashmir." Since August 1953 Abdullah has been held a prisoner without trial. His only crime: he pursued policies in Kashmir that were unacceptable to India's Prime Minister...
...Delhi in a BOAC Britannia late one morning last week, Britain's Harold Macmillan found Union Jacks fluttering over India's capital in festive display for the first time since the British Raj moved out in 1947. Out at the airport to greet the only British Prime Minister ever to visit India while in office was an array of notables headed by Jawaharlal Nehru and backed up by thousands of cheering citizens...
...time was taken up in political discussion. In repeated talks with Nehru, he got an earful of Indian ideas on the necessity for nuclear disarmament and the desirability of a new summit meeting. At a banquet in Macmillan's honor, Neutralist Nehru warmly praised the British Prime Minister for his tentative endorsement a fortnight ago of an East-West nonaggression pact-an endorsement that Britain's Foreign Office has been trying to explain away ever since. Lunching with Indonesia's President Sukarno, who has made India his first stop on a six-week "rest cure" away from...
...word that the Lion of Kashmir was loose again, India's top journalists turned their backs on Britain's Prime Minister Macmillan and other visiting notables and rushed for the Vale. But for the first three days, the canny Sheik stayed put in the village of Kud among the snow-capped mountains, waiting for his followers to stir up a lion's welcome among the chilled and hungry Moslems of Srinagar. Reporters found him commanding and ramrod-straight as ever. "I am the same Sheik Abdullah," he flashed, "but I must feel the pulse of the people...