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...made Somaliland a U.N. trusteeshin under Italy's care, setting 1960 as the date when it would become a free Somalia. As a matter of national pride, the Italians took seriously the job of sprucing up Somaliland. They repaired the war damage, started port developments and irrigation programs, built new hospitals and dispensaries, and tripled the number of native schools (though only one Somali in 100 can read and write). Somali tribesmen, mindful of their hatred of the Mussolini colonial era, at first conducted a war of terrorism against the territory's Italians, killing more Europeans than were...
Puerto Rico's self-help plan is a smashing success, there for any eye to see. San Juan's big, handsome new airport at Isla Verde, built for $15 million, makes most mainland terminals look shabby. An impressive low-cost housing program in San Juan has built 20,000 units. Private building has kept pace. Television antennas forest the roofs of the dwindling slums, and Governor Luis MunÕz Marin this week inaugurates an island-wide TV hookup. Wide boulevards and superhighways stretch out from the capital...
...when the economy revolved around the apathetic peasant sugar-cane cutter, and when industry-even rum-making-hardly existed. In 1940, Puerto Rico resolved that it was going to transform itself. Industrialization became a major goal. As a starter, the government bought out mossback electric companies, built dams, strung transmission lines, and thus provided the electricity that powers today's boom. But the most astute stroke was the 1942 creation of a government corporation, now called the Economic Development Authority, with a charter to industrialize the island...
...first the corporation built and ran plants, e.g., a wartime rum-bottle factory, a cement plant. But some strikes that followed showed the vulnerability of government in the double role of industrial labor's friend and employer. The lesson grew clear that the way to industrialize was to attract U.S. capital. In 1948 Operation Bootstrap, based on that principle, got under...
Bailey's attack was directed not just against Freudian theory, but against a wide range of psychiatric practices that owe little or nothing to Freud. Psychosurgery, said Bailey, has built a sorry monument of mutilated frontal lobes. "I am frankly appalled by the [aftereffects] of lobotomy and similar operations-abusive and obscene language, uninhibited sexual drive, obnoxious mannerisms, stealing, suggestibility . . . The great neuro-surgical revolution has proved abortive; it has not emptied our state hospitals." Later, "much the same panegyrics attended the spread of the shock gospel as had attended the spread of lobotomy and -in a previous generation...