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...morning after his death, Premier Kosygin and President Ayub Khan shouldered Shastri's coffin and bore it to a blue-and-silver Soviet Aeroflot IL-18 airliner for the 3½-hour flight to a mourning New Delhi and reunion with Shastri's grief-stricken family. As Indian generals carried the flag-covered body into his home at 10 Janpath (People's Way), Shastri's wife Lalita threw herself on her dead husband and kissed his face. "Shastriji, you have left me alone!" she wailed...
...genius, Keynes had plenty of faults and shortcomings. Even his admirers admit that he could be maddeningly abstruse and confusing. MJ.T.'s Paul Samuelson, for example, thinks that Keynes downplayed the importance of monetary policy. His few outright critics feel that, while he knew how to buoy a depression-stricken industrial economy, he offered little in the way of practical information about how to keep a prosperous modern economy fat and secure. Keynesian theories are certainly unworkable in the underdeveloped nations, where the problem is not too little demand but insufficient supply, and where the object is not to stimulate...
Wearing a brilliantly patterned bathrobe and a smile to match, Dwight Eisenhower, 75, arrived at Washington's Walter Reed Hospital last week to recuperate from his second heart attack in a decade. The trip from Augusta, where he was stricken during a golfing vacation Nov. 9, had taken 13 hours (at an average 45 m.p.h.) aboard an eight-car Atlantic Coast Line Railroad train with a hospital car equipped with electronic heart-monitoring equipment and staffed by 34 doctors, nurses and military policemen. The odyssey was paid for by the Defense Department because the General's trip...
...snooped everywhere; the press was heavily censored. After Daoud quarreled with his finance minister, that official and his family disappeared. Balding, haughty and highhanded, Daoud alienated Afghanistan's slowly developing intellectual class and won the distaste-if not outright dislike-of the nation's 13 million poverty-stricken subjects...
Born on a drought-stricken Minnesota farm, Mickelson quit high school in 1943, joined the merchant marine-and was sent into radio training. That led to a succession of postwar jobs as radio-station engineer, broadcaster, electronics technician. In 1953 he joined Remington Rand and was put to work designing memory cores for Univac. Computers were in their infancy, and a skilled designer could quickly make a mark in the field...