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...million in 1959, is likely to sag even more. Says he: "The immediate outlook for trade with China is discouraging because of natural calamities. This has resulted in China having to spend a great deal on the import of foodstuffs." But he is confident that great new markets still await Jardines in the emergent nations of Southeast Asia. And most old Asia hands, convinced that a prime motive for last week's stock sale was to raise expansion capital, back Barton's judgment of Jardines' future. Says one: "Jardines always was, and still is, a Scottish house...
Particulars which still await solutions include the requirements for selection of candidates, the method of orientation, and the project's relation with other universities. More than half a dozen colleges and universities have already asked Harvard for information about the program...
...stump. Barred these three years from the government's councils by the jealous Nacionalistas, Vice President Macapagal has had little to do but recite an occasional poem in the boondocks, cultivate his excellent relations with the Americans, denounce the Garcia administration for venality and torpor, and impatiently await the Liberal hour. Now he proclaims himself the spokesman of "a new generation" in the style of John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon. "Our people want change," he cried in his acceptance speech last week. "We shall open a new era that will bring a new morality in public service...
Navymen around the world await the annual edition of Jane's Fighting Ships as eagerly as European aristocrats used to await the Almanack de Gotha. Since 1897, Jane's, published in London close to the British Admiralty, has been the unofficial but authoritative best word on the relative strength and precedence of all the navies of the world...
...days of your prosperity you would doubtless have made the conventional rounds, London, Stratford, Winchester, Bath, Windsor, walking on a carpet of your own dollars. Today, when every cent must pay its way, new glories await you." In inexpensive Staffordshire, visit "Walsall, one of the few guidebook towns with absolutely nothing under 'Features of Interest'" or "nearby Smethwick, with its locally popular Victoria Public Park (no charge...