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...Sahara's resources." The French and Tunisians signed an agreement to build the pipeline across Tunisia at a cost of $95 million, which will give jobs to 2,000 Tunisians, turn the sleepy Tunisian port of Gabes into an active trade center and attract capital to a backward area...
WHILE many another backward part of the world spun its developmental wheels in rampant nationalism, revolution, official corruption, grandiose projects and politics for politics' sake, Puerto Rico buckled to work and remodeled itself. In the mood of reappraisal after the stones and spit that flew at Vice President Richard Nixon in South America, the island offers a laboratory where U.S. and Latin cultures and economies fuse with useful, imaginative lessons. For the dramatic methods that Poet-Governor Luis Muñoz Marin used in changing Puerto Rico from an "unsolvable problem" to a prosperous, burgeoning tropical workshop, see HEMISPHERE...
...blueprint for boosting world trade and developing backward countries was laid down this week in Foreign Economic Policy for the Twentieth Century, third in a series of special reports by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund (TIME, Jan. 13). Said the report: "There exists no vocal constituency for foreign economic policy. As a result, foreign economic policy has all too often become simply a response to a series of separate crises. Nothing is more important, therefore, than to bring about the conviction that a sustained and imaginative policy is crucial not only for our self-interest but for the peace and well...
...long," commented a California school board member, "education has addressed itself to the needs of the backward student. It is time we paid the same care to our bright children. If we gear ourselves to the dull and the most backward, what we produce is mediocre at best...
Book Publisher (Random House) and TV Paneluminary (What's My Line?) Bennett Cerf gave a group of Arizona businessmen the line on the modern novel: "There have been too many in which some young man is looking forward, backward or sideways in anger. Or in which some Southern youth is being chased through the magnolia bushes by his aunt. She catches him on page 28 with horrid results...