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Once such joint ventures are arranged, the Indian government protects them against foreign imports by high tariffs and quota restrictions. Says Charat Ram, 49, whose combine of sewing-machine, refrigerator, air-compressor, textile, and chemical companies makes him India's eighth largest manufacturer: "You cannot make a loss unless you are an utter fool. We are absolutely in a seller's market...
...fact that only five of 12,000 employees are related to him; Mahindra has linked his plants with Telex communications, keeps track of production with PERT (for performance evaluation and review technique), which was originally devised in the U.S. to coordinate production of the Polaris weapons system. Charat Ram took the lead in founding the All-India Management Association to help develop new talent. Says he: "There is a vast shortage of good management talent in India...
...collision, everything in the car flies forward at its original velocity, particularly the passengers. Like hammers striking nails, they ram into lethal little things: gearshift levers, air-conditioning ducts, ignition switches, chrome decorations on seats, glove compartments. One-fifth of the passenger fatalities result from being impaled by the steering wheel. The most dangerous place in the car is right next to the driver, the so-called death seat. Three-fifths of all passenger deaths are caused by striking the instrument panel, the roof, the windshield or its pillars, or being thrown from...
...Dominican crisis. Commodore Francisco J. Rivera Caminero, Armed Forces Secretary and head of the loyalist military, was slated to be naval attache to Washington. Colonel Francisco Caamaño Deñó, head of the 1,400-man rebel force, was named military attaché to London; Colonel Manuel Ramón Montes Arache, Caamaño's top aide, naval attaché to Ottawa; General Juan de los Santos Céspedes, current air force chief of staff, air attaché to Israel. Twenty-two more army, air force and police officers were assigned to an "indefinite" tour...
...good will, whose mission is to build new bridges, not just to Poland but to the people of Eastern Europe." Then everyone hied themselves over to Hye (pop. 134), an unincorporated crossroads five miles from the ranch. There, Larry O'Brien, the aide who did the most to ram the Great Society legislation through the 89th Congress, was sworn in as Gronouski's successor...