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...Except for disputed Mount Everest, the Chinese have about reached a border pact with Nepal (Red China naturally wants the world's highest peak). Now Pakistan President Mohammed Ayub Khan says he plans to get together with the Chinese and draw a northern border for the Pakistan-held sector of Kashmir...
...December. But the King detests Prince Souvanna, who is his distant cousin. Fortnight ago, a Russian Ilyushin 14 slipped into the Cambodian capital of Pnompenh bearing a rebel delegation that tried to talk Souvanna into returning to Laos to head up a rump government in the rebel-held sector. Souvanna cautiously refused to budge...
...covered by the law. Among those not covered: retail clerks, farm hands, seamen, and service employees, who earn much of their income in tips. The Administration will probably suggest that coverage be extended to an additional 3,000,000 employees, chiefly in the retail and service trades-fastest-growing sector of the U.S. economy. In so doing, it will run smack into the biggest foes of extending minimum-wage coverage: retail stores, hotels and restaurants, all of whom use much part-time, low-wage help...
...Soviet agriculture lags, Khrushchev charges furiously forth to defend his crown. Last year, as the year before, the Soviet harvest fell short, and once again Khrushchev is laying about him viciously in the barnyard. He has fired his Agriculture Minister, he has ordered a reorganization of the whole farm sector, and last week he put on a roaring show when the Communist Party's Central Committee met to discuss what is still his country's No. 1 problem, agriculture...
Significantly, most of the industrial rise came from the private sector of business, which many of Nehru's socialist-minded planners tend to slight in favor of "public sector" state enterprises. New products manufactured domestically for the first time ranged from chemicals to portable typewriters. Biggest rise in production was recorded by the automobile industry, which turned out 52,115 vehicles in 1960 as compared with 36,923 in 1959. More than a million bicycles were manufactured, and a modest export trade of 10,000 bicycles begun with the Middle East. Steel production rose from 1,800,000 tons...