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...fund represented only a small stick of capital, Hodges gave it leverage by signing up banks and loan associations to participate in B.D.C. risks. Run by a board of prominent citizens, B.D.C. took part in small loans totaling $5,000,000, created 8,000 new jobs, helped build a climate of confident risk-taking...
...Build up the power of right...
Nevertheless, honks of protest went up all over West Germany. Not only is Knechtsand a wild goose sanctuary near the fishing and resort town of Cuxhaven; it is also regularly visited by a game warden and a band of volunteer bird lovers, aged 10 to 68, who are helping build up the dunes to save the sandbar from the gnawing surf. Had they been on Knechtsand that day, they might have been killed or wounded...
...brought up in the belief," wrote John Foster Dulles to the President of the U.S. last week, "that this nation of ours was not merely a self-serving society but was founded with a mission to help build a world where liberty and justice would prevail." So saying, Dulles, gravely ill of cancer, resigned as Secretary of State. Replied Dwight Eisenhower: "You have set a record that stands clear and strong for all to see." Appointed to succeed Dulles in as critical time as ever faced a nation in a role of leadership: Christian Archibald Herter, 64, longtime student...
Last week the popular Rural Self-Help scheme, which gives villagers essentials such as nails, cement and simple tools so that they themselves can build schools, roads and small dams, had ground to a stop because U.S. funds had run out. ICA's new discipline requires strict accounting of first-quarter funds before second-quarter funds can be released. But Laotians, not accustomed to American accountants' techniques, were slow to comply with all the forms, despite lengthy pleas from Vientiane. Rather than see the whole program collapse before the rainy season stops all work in June, ICA Mission...