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Finally, after days of such pressure, both sides began to wilt. At the first sign of a break, the President strode in to confront the negotiators, spent a full 43 minutes bombarding them with hard statistics and "a few pious thoughts," as he called them. He was in rare form. He flattered both sides, declaring that "Abel is an able fellow and a hard trader, but he has met his match in this fellow Cooper." He assured the industry that, with profits running at an alltime high, it could well afford a reasonable wage boost...
...food crisis, Shastri decided to forgo rice as a symbol of self-denial. But out of modesty he refused to let the fact be relayed to the rioting people, and the possible impact was lost. Yet many Indians feel that more than self-abnegation is needed to confront grave problems. Says Editor Frank Moraes of the Indian Express: "Leaders have no business being humble...
...Grain Drain. The crises that confront India are grave indeed. First on the list is the perennial problem of providing enough food for a population that is growing at a rate of 3% a year. The cause of last year's food crisis was simple enough: for three straight years, Indian grain production remained static at 80 million tons. Sharp traders from Bombay to Calcutta capitalized on the underproduction by buying up wheat in the fields, then quietly ordering farmers to hold their crops for future delivery after prices had soared higher. In Shastri's home state, wheat...
...explorer in the search for excellence. As we near the outer edges of this century, the loss of quality and the discovery of excellence become the searing issues of the times. I know of no one who is better suited by temperament, by experience, and by intellectualism to confront these issues and bend them to the national desire...
...again, to say only that he calls up the child murderer with a twist of the thumb is to overlook his more substantial accomplishment. He's on stage the length of the play, and never falters. He works well with the succession of characters who confront him. And he has the finesse not to waste himself in the early scenes. I only caught on to a few of his bits at the very...