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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just Like the South. To Banker Black, a man of vision without being a visionary, the job the World Bank must do in backward areas is not much different from the transformation he has seen in his native South. Says he: "The Civil War knocked us flat on our backs and left us there . . . Slowly and painfully, we picked ourselves up. We began to be able to save and invest ... A little capital begot more capital; a little expansion begot more expansion . . . The South's story tells how development works...
Anticolonial nationalists won a sweeping victory last week in the first general elections ever held in backward little British Honduras (est. pop. 75,000). The People's United Party carried eight of the nine contested seats, enough to give them a majority in the Legislative Council set up under the colony's new constitution. Said Governor Patrick Renison: "We must give it a go. I will cooperate fully...
DiMaggio too, says that an improved television channel is needed in the city. "I am thoroughly convinced that TV in Boston now is very backward," he stated last night...
This strictness in dealing with the exchange students is often justifiable. Such "visitors" are legalized by the U.S. Information and Educational Exchange Act, whose purpose is to offer American training to people from war-ravaged or backward countries, almost as part of Point Four. Thus, as Professor Paul Chalmers, assistant dean of admissions at MIT points out, we have a bi-national responsibility--to say, France, which wants its bright young scholars to return to France to work, rather than to remain...
What is left? A few hundred frames of calm beauty, a quiet memory of a sort of negative Eden, the last backward look into a primitive demi-paradise lost (little more than a year after these pictures were taken, Chinese Communist armies moved into Tibet). The camera sees the herds of yak grazing below icy peaks in meadows of wild orchids, and finds the barley harvests lying like some sort of killed light in the thin blue air. Wild flowers splurge -in summer the whole Himalaya seems a giant's rock garden. Down from the mountains to the high...