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stack of overnight cables, dictated answers involving millions of dollars. One day last week, in a radio message to his London office. Niarchos approved final specifications for a new 32,650-ton tanker (cost: more than $10 million).
The Doer. Officially, Jawaharlal Nehru is not only India's Prime Minister but Foreign Minister and Minister of Atomic Energy as well. Unofficially, he is India's chief planner, chief policymaker, chief reformer and universal straw boss. Proud of his command of English (developed at Harrow and Cambridge...
Nehru starts off each day at New Delhi at 6:15 in the morning with 20 minutes of yoga exercises that invariably include a few headstands ("Standing on my head increases my good humor"). By 7:45 he has showered, scanned Delhi's English-language papers, and is in...
The camera's hypnotic eye and the overbearing mass of cables and equipment win priority almost everywhere. Policemen barred reporters from the scene of a recent Los Angeles train wreck while TV cameras prowled after a trench-coated commentator interviewing survivors as they came out of the wreckage. When...
A Lot of Money. Truckloads of Red army troops and squad cars crowded with Volkspolizei stood by. Mobile generators were humming to provide lights for the occasion, and at the entrance to a hole dug in the ground, a colonel of the Russian signal corps was on hand to explain...