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Among U.S. investors in Latin America, Kaiser has long had an enviable record of readiness to make big commitments, willingness to take in local investors as partners, and consideration for local political sensitivities. But in Córdoba, Argentina, two weeks ago, when Kaiser reluctantly called a ten-day shutdown of its auto assembly lines in order to work off a prohibitively large backlog of unsold cars, hundreds of workers seized 50 supervisors, locked them in a paint shop, and held them hostage until local Kaiser Boss James McCloud agreed to keep the plant in operation...
Expecting at least a token condemnation of Chinese aggression from its old neutralist cronies, India was, to say the least, disappointed. In New Delhi, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru received Mrs. Bandaranaike coolly after her ten-day sojourn in China, but did not reject her proposals outright. Nehru still hopes to gain time to build up his shattered armed forces. Too much delay, however, could try China's patience; still scratched on many buildings in the Himalayas is the ominous warning left by Chinese troops as they withdrew after last month's ceasefire: "We may have to return...
Looking like a chubby chipmunk in blue snow pants, the Prince of Wales manfully herringboned his way through his first ski lessons at the start of a ten-day snow holiday in Schuls, Switzerland. Prince Charles, 14, took his first lesson in private on a secluded slope, demonstrated enough prowess for lesson No. 2 to be a more public affair. Beamed Instructor Gisep Heinrich: "His Royal Highness has been doing very well today...
Coffman and presumably Cambridge attorney Francis J. Roche will submit proposals for the use of the land at a Trustees meeting today. Both Coffman and Roche had obtained a ten-day extension on the January 8 deadline for presenting specific plans for developing the property...
...Chinese thrust came after a ten-day lull in the fighting and was apparently aimed at driving down the Luhit River valley toward India's important oil fields at Digboi, 90 miles from Walong, in the North East Frontier Agency. The Chinese seized a mountain slope above Walong, but Indian troops "went into an attack and cleared this position, throwing back the Chinese aggressors...