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Jawaharlal Nehru, who used to be careful to say little to offend Moscow or Peking. But in a memo to his ruling Congress Party last August, Nehru had criticized the "growing contradictions" in Communism, charged that Communism's "unfortunate association with violence encourages a certain evil tendency in human beings," and likened the Reds' reliance on violence to that of the fascists. Lately, Nehru has found himself under attack from no less a Red than Pavel Yudin, Soviet Ambassador to Red China and one of the Soviet Communist Party's leading theoreticians. In the December issue...
...circ. 5,700,000; 8,100,000 on Sunday) laid off some 15,000 workers, who lost an estimated $4,000,000 in wages. Struck during the Christmas rush, the papers missed some $30 million in advertising. Wrote Publisher Arthur Hays Sulzberger of the Times in a whimsical office memo: "Last year I had a stroke. This year I have a strike. Next year I hope I'll have a 'streke' of better luck...
Maiden Voyage. Off Formosa, a supply officer on the U.S.S. Midway circulated a memo asking the person who had sent a brassiere to the ship's laundry to claim...
...Laboratories, Morri-son-Knudsen Co. and Dresser Inc. have similar policies, though they do not send out a formal letter. Former General Motors President Harlow H. Curtice did not go that far in laying down a rule of thumb to guide his people but he did send around a memo that no G.M. man should accept a gift he cannot eat, drink or smoke in one day. G.M. and many others still send gifts to valued customers and contacts, but they try to make the gifts useful, or at least personal-not the welter of ashtrays, cigarette lighters, wallets, swizzle...
Soon after he stepped in as president, Florence sent out a memo in which he said that loan officers were relying too much on statistics in granting loans, and not enough on common sense. Florence made a rule that any one officer could grant a loan, but it took more than one to turn down a borrower. "At Republic," says President Stanley Marcus of Dallas' Nieman-Marcus, "nobody thinks they're doing you a favor by lending you money. They look on banking as a commodity to sell, not a privilege...