PERIPATETICS: Visit to a Mountaintop

In less than a month Pandit Nehru had traveled 10,000 miles, from Washington to New York to San Francisco and back again to New York. As his trip neared its end, he seemed to grow less & less tired despite the incessant strain of meeting people and making speeches. "Why, in India," he remarked to exhausted newsmen who trailed him across the continent, "I work much harder. This is nothing."

A Wonderful Guy. Nehru had seen a panorama of power and plenty. He had visited the great Norris dam of TVA—"a legend in...

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