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...exploring for petroleum with Indian money. Said Levy: "For every oil well you drill. 1,000 Indians will have to go without an education. Your resources are inadequate to do everything you want. So let foreign interests do the drilling.'' Levy's advice helped to temper Indian policy...
...task force working on the cover story in France was mobilized by Paris Bureau Chief Curtis Prendergast ("It was a week of sweat, sandwiches and Coca-Cola"), who handled the broad assessment of the situation himself, while assigning Correspondents Judson Gooding to report on the French political temper, Jeremy Main on the effects in NATO, James Wilde on the French business reaction, Godfrey Blunden on an analysis of the Soviet view. Their files, along with reports from TIME bureaus in Washington, Bonn, London and Rome, poured into New York, where Writer Robert McLaughlin, with the aid of Researcher Vera Kovarsky...
...little formal education or top-level administrative experience, but is a knowledgeable defense expert who criticized Britain's commitment to the Skybolt missile as far back as 1960. His most impressive endorsement came last week from the prestigious Economist, which argued that criticisms of his quick temper and impatience with technical detail "could also have been levied against Winston Churchill." Unlike Gaitskell, whose political philosophy was based on an essentially out-of-date view of an "insular and downtrodden England," argued the weekly, Brown's socialism is that "of an age when intelligent thrusters have learned to look...
...Congress' temper is very short just now. If we hadn't settled this strike, the government would probably have stepped in and dictated a contract. If there are any more major strikes soon. Congress is almost sure to provide for compulsory arbitration of all walkouts," he said...
...S.O.B. Club. When things cooled down, many businessmen concluded that Blough had been wrong, and that if the President had only held his temper, the workings of the free market at a time of softness in steel demand would have forced Blough to rescind his price rises within a few weeks anyway. The President won a backdown from Big Steel when Chicago's Inland Steel refused to go along with Blough's move. Inland executives have repeatedly implied that they would not have raised prices even had the President not intervened...