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Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru was getting just about the worst press he had ever received in India. What made everyone mad last week was his threat to resign his office, and then his tame turnabout when Congress Party politicians begged him to stay on (TIME, May 12). New Delhi columnist B. G. Verghese felt that Nehru had come close to "tearing off the mask of complacency and compromise that has been the bane of the Congress Party and the country," only to falter at the last minute: "He compromised without any gain. He threw away the opportunity that he himself...
...consumer has done a complete and almost unnoticed turnabout in taste recently. So Researcher Louis Cheskin, director of Chicago's Color Research Institute, this week told the Advertising Federation of America. Said Cheskin: The entire attitude of the American people towards "ostentatious ornamentation" has changed drastically in the last few months, especially in cars. "As recently as last year, our tests showed that people reacted favorably to elaborate ornamentation, gaudy color combinations and chrome trim on cars and other steel products. The recent studies show that people are reacting unfavorably to such functionless frills...
...MISSILE TURNABOUT by the Army, which previously researched and developed its own tactical missiles, will give Baltimore's Martin Co. job of developing Pershing solid-fuel rocket (range: about 800 miles) to replace liquid-fuel Redstone (range: 200 miles...
...Renegade features a fanatical Christian missionary who goes out to convert a barbarous tribe dwelling in a dread-provoking "city of salt." The natives promptly cut out his tongue and convert him into a devoted slave of their fetish-god. A turnabout ending suggests that man can drink deeply of neither good nor evil without finding its opposite mocking him from the bottom of the glass...
Washington's new attitude on contract-letting represented a decided turnabout from spending in the early part of this fiscal year. When the Administration set a Defense Department budget of $38 billion for fiscal 1958, the Pentagon was already running far above its spending ceiling, and the Budget Bureau held down defense authorization for new contracts for the first four months of the fiscal year to only $8.4 billion. Then, reassured that the Pentagon's spending rate was under control, the bureau relaxed, released another $10 billion in November and December. Contracts for the rest of the fiscal...