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...just about all the reasons that can flare up in a hungry, desperate land. It was blamed for the food shortages that are plaguing India for the second successive year; for violent riots, which Indira's permissiveness sometimes seemed to encourage; and for the country's stagnant economy, which no amount of five-year plans and doses of bureaucratic management have managed to get off dead center. Not all the blame rightfully belongs to Indira: India, especially during a drought, is an almost ungovernable country. Yet in the 13 months since she succeeded the late Lal Bahadur Shastri...
...workers trudged to their jobs, a heavy fog blanketed the bleak and grimy town. It hung suspended in the stagnant air while local businesses-steel mills, a wire factory, zinc and coke plants-continued to spew waste gases, zinc fumes, coal smoke and fly ash into the lowering darkness. The atmosphere thickened. Grime began to fall out of the smog, covering homes, sidewalks and streets with a black coating in which pedestrians and automobiles left distinct footprints and tire tracks. Within 48 hours, visibility had become so bad that residents had difficulty finding their way home...
...retention of Hilton's name and penthouse-level management, comes at a propitious moment: TWA is negotiating for rights to new, competitive trans-Pacific routes that would include Tokyo and Honolulu, where Hilton hotels are waiting. Additionally, good hotel accommodations are scarce, foreign-financed hotel construction is stagnant, and by 1970, TWA will have a fleet of cavern-cabined Boeing 747 jets hauling hordes of passengers around the globe. "With more people flying and more planes carrying them," said a TWA spokesman, "it's obvious that we need a place to put them when they get where they...
...James J. Saxon, until recently Comptroller of the Currency, saw it, "Enclaves of monopoly and stagnant, unprogressive banks should not be safeguarded." Implementing that peppery philosophy during his five controversial years in office, Saxon approved 3,806 new national-bank branches, many of which were in direct competition with state-chartered banks. Fighting back, state banks in nine states so far have sued to close some of Saxon's federal branches. Last week the Supreme Court decided that Saxon had stretched his powers...
Belated Sweep. Temperatures climbed -Manhattan experienced a record 64° -as the bowl of stagnant air roofed the region. A scattering of New York hospitals reported an increase in lung-ailment complaints. Finally, with weather forecasts indicating no relief, officials called a first-stage smog alert* in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut...