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...river of India, beloved of her people . . . running into the present and flowing on to the great ocean of the future." The remainder of his ashes, according to Nehru's wish, will be scattered from an airplane "so that they might mingle with the dust and soil of India and become an indistinguishable part of India...
Grumbling Friend. Shastri is close to his country's mind and soil. He is one of the few Congress politicians not to have amassed a large fortune or property or donations from wealthy businessmen. He has no auto, would prefer to stay on in his tiny bungalow, and still gives part of his salary to the Servants of the People Society, a group devoted to public service with whom he worked as a young...
...minor discoveries of the fair, presents the Word only as a kind of commercial at the ends of its excellent and varied movies on scientific subjects, which contain, among other things, fascinating studies in time-lapse photography: cumulus clouds boil upward, taproots plunge down through the soil like fast-moving snakes...
...sits on what was a lake, the building must be broad-footed to avoid sinking into muddy subsoil. A Mexican engineer, Leonardo Zeevaert, designed a displacement foundation that is in effect a watertight ship, and the weight of the building that it supports exactly equals the weight of the soil removed in excavation. Mexicans call it "the floating embassy...
...Hell with Economics. These new products-and the ideas behind them-spring from the fertile soil of two A.T.&T.-owned giants in their own right: Western Electric and Bell Labs. Western has 149,000 employees, turns out more than 50,000 kinds of communications gear, and buys parts and materials from small businesses in some 3,000 U.S. towns. U.S. trustbusters complain that Western sells equipment to A.T. & T. at half the price it charges competitors, point out that it earns only 5% on its sales. Kappel argues that if A.T.&T. did not have Western, its own costs...