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Though his education was exclusively at the hands of palace tutors, King Mahendra had acquired modern ideas and set about introducing them to Nepal. He directed the drafting of a new constitution himself and, with the aid of $30 million in U.S. aid, built schools, roads and a radiotelephone network. In 1959, with Mahendra's consent and blessing, Nepal conducted its first election. The Nepali Congress Party, led by India-trained, vaguely socialist B. P. Koirala, won 74 out of 109 seats...
...Mateos was onstage in full revolutionary uniform as a $26 million plan to buy out 365 of Mexico's leading cinemas went into effect. The intention: to clip the wings of the theater owner, U.S. Citizen William O. Jenkins, 82, a mysterious buccaneer-businessman who has built the biggest personal fortune in Mexico, a money pile estimated anywhere from $200 million to $300 million...
...Carpenter Lavius Fillmore's First Congregational Church in Bennington, Vt., derived from an 18th century American builder's handbook adapting the designs of Sir Christopher Wren, to the asymmetrical, aspiring structures of Frank Lloyd Wright, whose intention, in churches like Redding, Calif.'s soon-to-be-built Pilgrim Congregational Church, was to create a wholly new and American architecture. Today the right to use materials naturally and unadorned (as Wright would have them) has become common, accepted practice-seems indeed to have a special churchly appeal because of its ring of honesty. Architect Ralph Rapson boldly built...
Under the incentive program, 51 new factories turning out products ranging from transistor radios to giant shipyard cranes have been built for foreign firms in Ireland. For their share, foreign firms have invested about $84 million in plants and machinery. The plants have directly created 10,000 new jobs, indirectly another 10,000. Nearly one-quarter of the plants belong to West German firms, which, faced with a labor shortage at home, have turned to Ireland for a bountiful supply of workers. Besides Borden, twelve other U.S. firms, including Brunswick Corp., Standard Pressed Steel (electronic components) and Hallmark, have...
...finding new uses for aluminum. When a truck manufacturer scoffed at the idea of aluminum truck beds, Harvey helped build some to prove the point. Today 85% of all truck beds and semitrailers are aluminum, v. the 85% once made of steel. To show railroad skeptics, Harvey recently had built an all-aluminum 85-ft. railroad car, now has constant requests for its use, hopes orders will follow...