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Nothing irritates India's fastidious Prime Minister Nehru more than the tasteless and insistent hero worship heaped upon him by the Indian masses. Admirers who bend to touch his sandaled feet are often rewarded with a gentle kick; officials who prepare fancy receptions may find themselves denounced as "wasters of the people's time and money." Last week in the modest farming town of Hubli, in southwestern India, Nehru sat contentedly on a bamboo-railed platform, swatting flies while the chairman introduced him to the crowd of 2,000. Glowingly, the speaker described the guest of honor...
...built its own brand-new competitive V-8 engine plant, begun making its own bodies in a plant leased from Chrysler, talked the militant U.A.W. into reducing labor costs at Studebaker's South Bend factory to make them competitive with the rest of the industry, pioneered such engineering items on the Packard line as torsion-bar suspension and electrified push-button automatic shifts...
...recorded by Martinson, won the author election to the Swedish Academy after the book's publication in 1948. But as a novel, Martinson's Road has no crossroads of crisis and. like his tramps, no destination-except perhaps the insidious lure of what lies beyond the next bend...
Bolstering the staff, Luis Arroyo with his tricky greaseball could straighten out to be one of the toughest hurlers in the Senior circuit. And, too, in the St. Louis training camp last month at St. Petersburg, the watchword was "watch Vinegar Bend Mizell." The phrase referred to southpaw Wilmer Mizell...
...change in company towns stems from the social and economic maturity of U.S. industry. Community and employee relations are as important a factor in modern management as raw materials, markets and transportation. Most companies today bend over backward to be good neighbors in their communities. Industry's new attitude to community relations was simply defined by Troy Blanket Mills' Vice President E. J. Russell, whose company has been the only industry in Troy, N.H. for 75 years. Said he: "People like to be treated like people...