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...Pass and the smaller passes into Sikkim. The tough Chinese troops at Natu, whom we had come up to see, have 82-mm. mortars and at least six 76-mm. howitzers mounted on the northern and southern shoulders of Natu, and a permanent observation post on the looming black slate ridge just ahead...
Spikes on Slate. As the dawn fog blew off the crest, Indian jawans (infantrymen) in parkas fanned out along both sides of the pass, their American-supplied automatic weapons at the ready. "There, there on the right the Chinkos have come over the top," said the Indian officer, pointing to the ridge line...
Churned Earth. Early last week a Dutch engineer named Egbert Roosma took a stroll on the outskirts of the camp. The late afternoon sun glistened on the bright yellow barracks, repair shops and tool sheds. There was a constant roar from bulldozers and heavy-duty trucks churning up the slate-grey earth as they carried dirt and rocks to the growing wall. Roosma, 25, had reason for satisfaction: the Mattmark project would be completed by October, and its turbines were already generating electricity. He had got on well with his Swiss employers and with the hundreds of workers...
...cannot succeed himself after his two-year term is up, but the current president, muscular, mustachioed Kumaraswami Kamaraj Nadar, 62, is a close political ally of Shastri. Looking ahead to the 1967 elections, Shastri wanted someone atop the party machinery to select pro-Shastri candidates for the next parliamentary slate. Shyly but firmly, Shastri let it be known that anyone who wanted to change the party rules and permit Kamaraj to succeed himself would not meet with his disfavor...
...happens in most corporations is that the president appoints a lot of the directors. Some companies oper» ate a mutual protective society for presidents. They all cross-exchange. They stay on each other's boards and they protect each other. They put out a ballot with one slate and you can vote yes or no, but there is a 99% vote because there is only one slate. You have no alternative but to vote with management. Not all of the stockholders' suggestions can be bad; some should be listened to. But most management doesn't listen...