The U.S. embassy aides were well-scrubbed, white-shirted and business-suited as they waited at New Delhi's Palam airport. "I'll be damned," cried one of the greeters as the arriving U.S. State Department dignitary bounded down from the big MATS Constellation. For Under Secretary of State Chester Bliss Bowles stepped forth in shirtsleeves, shorts and sweat socks.
The Bowles costume might be something of a surprise, but in fact the State Department's No. 2 man was offending neither diplomatic nicety nor common sense. His 18-day tour to Europe. Asia and Africa had not been...
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