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What was there to talk about? At nearly every stop in the 8,000-mile route from New Delhi to Washington, Nehru had been willing to hint at what was on his mind, e.g., bad relations between the U.S. and Peking, India's economic needs, mistrust of the U.S.-endorsed Baghdad Pact, the Suez Canal, colonialism...
...speech this month at the University of Pennsylvania, Henry Ford II noted the rising concern of big business over the shortage of classrooms and laboratories on the nation's campuses, then dropped a big hint. "We at the Ford Motor Company," said he, "have been looking hard at the problem for some time, and we hope to be able in the near future to come forth with some direct kind of action to help meet it head-on." Ford proved as good as his word. This week, the Ford Motor Co. and the Ford Motor Company Fund* offered...
...after three years, had he changed his mind? His family needed him, he was homesick. And there were other reasons: while working in a Chinese People's Republic paper plant at Tsinan, he had met Cho, a coworker, and they enjoyed each other-until Cho uncommunistically began to hint of marriage. "If I had married her," said Arlie. "I might not have been able to get home." Then there were those headaches. Said Arlie: "Thinking all the time gives a man headaches...
...demonstrations. At noon there were angry student meetings in every college. At the Polytechnic a printing press was seized, a broadsheet printed. Budapest came out to see the student fun. Said an old woman: "We have been silent for eleven years. Today nothing will stop us." There was no hint of the violence to come...
...foggy moors and smoky cities of England it came, music that sang of Technicolor landscapes and of love that was tender, contented, and safely married. Every song was almost without flaw, as in a languorous dream, rich and edgeless as whipped cream, and always giving a hint of something a little more respectable than a mere pop tune, as the massed strings soared to the discrete pulsation of a harp or a guitar. And sometimes the music actually was more respectable, as when it was an orchestral arrangement of an operatic aria. This was the music of Annunzio Paolo Mantovani...