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...Delhi Correspondent Charles Mohr has followed Ambassador Galbraith around India by plane, car and elephant, finds him "the easiest man to interview" he's ever worked with. Mohr describes Galbraith a onetime FORTUNE writer) as amiable, instructive and vivid. Mohr interviewed him six hours for the cover, the last 2½ hours of it on an airplane bound for Bombay...
...loneliest man in Time's man-of-the-week club of 1962 must be George F. Kennan, U.S. Ambassador to Yugoslavia. Kennan is featured in this week's issue together with Edwin O. Reischauer and John Kenneth Galbraith, Harvard professors who are currently on leave as ambassadors, and are the third and fourth Harvard men to appear on the magazine's cover in two weeks...
Under the title "The Natural Americans," a five-page story describes Kennan, Reischauer (Japan), and Galbraith (India), as "three of the liveliest choices --and likeliest successes" among President Kennedy's 63 new ambassadors. "Their joint characteristics are frankness, sensitiveness to the nerves and taboos of their host countries, an eagerness to listen...and ill-concealed dislike of Embassy Row cocktail parties...
...Probably the most independent ambassador in the field," Galbraith in New Delhi stays close to Nehru; according to the article, he has been responsible for the three-day postponement of the Goan invasion and for a statement from Nehru modifying the Prime Minister's controversial remarks on Berlin last August...
...lesser-known works of his first year was supplying Indians with American books, obtained with a Ford Foundation grant. The Last Hurrah pleased Nehru but "the book that influential Indians seem to want most" is Galbraith's own The Affluent Society...