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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...month, the Government decided to take aid neutrally from all corners-and started off with a four-year pledge of $37 million from the U.S. for road and school construction. Last week, presenting his new budget, Finance Minister Kyaw Nyein showed how well the new-style fiscal neutrality works. Among expected revenues...
...courses for foreign-bound executives; it also puts graduate students to work for two or three months in international agencies. Montana's ten graduate students (tuition: $500) are not only sharpening their specialties in the classroom. Next month they will put them to grass-roots work by living among the state's Cheyenne Indians and next winter in a Mexican village. The most ambitious scheme of all is planned by Manhattan's Committee for an International Institute: a three-month language and culture course for as many as 300 executives and their wives at a time...
...later bought by Los Angeles' Oscar Mayer, a freewheeling dealer in antiquities. Mayer insured the pieces for $75,000; historically they are priceless-two splendid clues in a search back through the dark abyss of time. The sculptures have already caused great excitement in Paris, where Andre Malraux among others identified them as definitely "Olmequisant." Next week they will move on to Berlin's Akademie der Künste, and in December to London's Tate Gallery-a busy schedule for such deliberate and quiet sculpture, made in a vanished bubble of history...
...Lake Geneva near Montreux, are all remarkable. The physician is Dr. Paul Niehans, '77 (though he looks more like 60), who declares: "I reject nine out of ten would-be patients. I choose persons who represent a certain value to the world by their individual prominence." Among the chosen have been the late Pope Pius XII and the Imam of Yemen (treated in Rome), the late King Ibn Saud, Painter Georges Braque, Somerset Maugham, Gloria Swanson, the King of Morocco. Most of them received Dr. Niehans' rejuvenation treatment-one or more injections of cells from an unborn lamb...
...Niehans bars the use of cellular injections in patients with infections. Furthermore, he insists, patients get no X rays, diathermy, vaccinations, liquor or tobacco. He makes no claim to have cured cancer, but insists that among the thousands of patients to whom he personally has given 20,000 injections, none have later developed cancer...