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...strikes, boycotts and demonstrations to force them out. Known as "the 2,000 words," the manifesto was originally signed by 70 members of the country's elite, including artists, film directors and athletes; later, more than 30,000 more Czechoslovaks signed up. The document is designed to build up sentiment for a purge of hard-liners at a special party Congress to be held on Sept. 9, when Dubček's reformers hope to sack most of the remaining followers of deposed, pro-Stalinist President Antonin Novotn...
...several other firm loan applications are in the works. Ceylon will shortly sign for a loan to improve tea production, Taiwan wants $5,000,000 for a fishing fleet, and Indonesia would like $150 million to increase food production. Malaysia has applied to ADB for a loan to build oil-palm mills, and two weeks ago the bank signed a technical-assistance agreement with the Philippines under which ADB will send five experts to see what can be done about the Philippine rice crop. Only 21% of the land, according to an ADB study, is now irrigable in wet seasons...
...chairman (1963-67) of the giant Hawker Siddeley Group and wartime head of A. V. Roe & Co., makers of the famed Lancaster bomber; of lung cancer; in Midhurst, England. The emphasis was on fighters in 1940, and Aircraft Czar Lord Beaverbrook turned Dobson down when he asked permission to build a super-bomber; Avro tackled the project on its own, by war's end had produced 7,500 "Lancs" which helped pound Nazi Germany into rubble...
...stole Willis du Font's collection only the other day he got back a single coin worth $100,000. His cousin, Alexis I. du Pont, may be better off with his collection of antique airplanes, though they take up so much room that the poor fellow has had to build himself a complete airport...
There was no word to describe the new device when scientists first learned how to build it. But there seemed to be no limit to its potential. The fierce pure light they were coaxing out of synthetic crystals was so powerful that the military believed its long-sought super-weapon-a death ray-might finally become a reality. Applications in medicine and in industry seemed limited only by the human imagination...