Word: aids
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...construction of auto-assembly plants in the Congo. The Union Minière mining empire, now nationalized and called Gecomin, is operating almost at full capacity; half of the company's white technicians have stayed on to help run it. Belgium has agreed to resume its $70 million aid program, which it suspended after the Belgian embassy was stormed. About half of the 1,200 Belgian teachers, whose exodus from the Congo crippled the country's schools and three universities, are now planning to come back to areas where Mobutu can assure their safety...
Ultimately, the dollar's strongest underpinning of all is the sturdy U.S. economy. With a favorable trade balance averaging $6 billion a year, the nation has run into dollar-threatening balance of payments trouble only because of foreign aid, overseas investment and the Viet Nam war. Despite all the speculation, maintained Chairman Alfred Schaefer of the Union Bank of Switzerland last week, "the dollar is strong enough to ride it out-provided that it is well defended...
...orchestra and chorus perform noticeably above the usual Grant-in-Aid show level, particularly in the big numbers. "Bon Voyage" and "Heaven Hop," the kind of songs you'd expect to be weakest in a college production, are instead the strongest. And the cast, uncomfortable at line-readings, has a better aggregate singing voice than any Harvard musical in ages...
...best thing about the show has to be the choice of the property. It is in the nature of Grant-in-Aid productions to possess mass appeal, or to strive for it. The last two, Guys and Dolls and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, were obviously drawn from the approved list of sure-fire musicals. Everyone had seen them both, and the film version of Forum even played simultaneously with the Grant-in-Aid rendering. Anything Goes comes off the same list, but it's been infrequently produced, and its score more heard-of-than...
...With the aid of unemployed civil rights marchers and militant priests, Chavez, Alinsky & Co. ultimately won their strike. The revolutionary fever was slow to cool. As one union organizer put it afterward: "Success in our business means getting workers to middle-class status. The guy who carried a banner in 1966-well, in five years you're going to have a hard time getting him to a union meeting." It is that mood of inevitability that makes the anachronism of the Delano strike such compelling reading-and the strikers' success such a meaningful victory...