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...conceding that Nepal is a sovereign state, India has continued the practice of the British raj in trying to exercise control over the mountain kingdom. Nehru's government poured $56 million in economic aid into Nepal and supplied it with arms; in return, Nepal exports to India rice, timber, and the tough little Gurkha soldiers who make up India's crack regiments...
Encouraged by its morning supremacy, the Times invaded the afternoon field in 1948 by founding the tabloid Mirror. The odds on survival seemed good. The Chandlers control a wealthy empire consisting of holdings in real estate, oil, timber, a paper mill, a vast cattle ranch, an insurance firm and Los Angeles television station KTTV. There were millions available to underpin their new paper in its deliberate campaign to wrest afternoon readership away, from Hearst's Herald-Express, a flamboyant blend of blaring headlines, race results, and juicy sex and crime stories. Self-styled as an independent-Republican daily...
...remember the frail, baby-faced crooner who used to prance through swarms of spangled chorines in pursuit of Ruby Keeler would have spotted Dick Powell as executive timber. But some 25 years later, as the grey-templed president of Four Star Television, Dick Powell has made himself a millionaire many times over. The current Dick Powell Show (NBC), a loosely strung "anthology series" with room for a wide variety of stars (sometimes including Powell himself) and material, has won steadily good reviews and the sort of ratings that turn admen respectful. Producer Powell has scored triumphs of surprise casting: Mickey...
...among other things, the custom of bowing three times before the funeral altar will be streamlined down to a single bow. Newly forbidden is the use of wooden, disposable chopsticks in Korea's 11,676 restaurants and teahouses-the government wants to conserve the country's dwindling timber reserves; instead, the use and reuse of plastic chopsticks is urged...
...Like Tito." Jagan's main hope to knit his fractured country together is massive aid from abroad. With Cuba, he has a deal to export rice and timber in return for a Castro-confiscated printing plant. But to the U.S., he cooed that he does not intend to fulfill an old pledge to nationalize the sugar and bauxite industries. When final independence is won, he intends to join the Organization of American States. He wants to travel to the U.S. this fall to talk over his share of the Alliance for Progress with President Kennedy, and sees no reason...