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...personal favorites in the succession sweepstakes are said to be his daughter, Indira Gandhi, 44, widow of Congress Party Backbencher Feroze Gandhi (no kin to the Mahatma), and acerbic, West-baiting Defense Minis ter Krishna Menon, 65. Nehru envisions his daughter, who is his closest confidante, as a stopgap Prime Minister who could keep India on an even keel until the Congress Party chose a permanent successor...
Insisting that what it would really like to see would be reduced subsidies for the railroads' competitors, the ICC argued that this could not be accomplished in time to save the railroads. The rail subsidy, claimed the commission, would serve only as a stopgap measure until the day when subsidies could be trimmed all around to equalize competition for everybody in the business of moving people. This had a plausible ring, but even those who favored the ICC plan found it difficult to believe that railroad handouts, once begun, would ever...
Stiff though the emergency measures might be, they could only be stopgap as long as British management and labor continue their easygoing, old-fashioned way of doing business. An increasing number of British statesmen and economists insist that a lasting cure can be effected only by Britain's entry into the Common Market. Under the icy blast of aggressive European competition, they argue, British industry may be shocked into new life...
Achievement of a neutral Laos would be no Kennedy victory, but if neutrality could be preserved, it would be an acceptable stopgap solution. Implicit in Kennedy's words was a hint of a big stick-a warning that, in spite of all the hazards of warfare and the possibility of another Korea, the U.S. would fight if necessary to keep the Reds from overrunning Laos. The troops were ready, and Secretary of State Rusk was at the SEATO conference in Bangkok to rally the U.S.'s allies (see following story...
...China ploy came only five days after U.S. Ambassador John Moors Cabot had relayed President Kennedy's offer of stopgap credits-reportedly $100 million-to help tide Brazil over its economic crisis. The offer was made just as that crisis was forcing Jânio to order all ministries to cut their budgets 30% within the next two weeks and to clamp down on goldbricking civil servants, many of whom, thanks to political influence, have been allowed to come to the office only once a month to pick up their paychecks. Despite his nation's urgent need...