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...grew scarce. Result: Brazil's businessmen have had to live with a severe shortage of capital. Taking advantage of this situation, Brazil's revolutionary government is trying to use one problem as the bait for solving another-hoping that way to solve them both. In an ingenious carrot-and-stick proposition, it is offering a better shot at government credit to companies that hold the price line until the end of the year, giving little chance of badly needed credit to those that keep raising prices...
...first lesson Rod ("Rocket") Laver had to learn when he quit amateur tennis and turned pro in 1963 was respect for his elders. The cocky, carrot-topped Aussie lefthander, then 24, was far from awed by the likes of Pancho Gonzales and Ken Rosewall. After all, he was the first player since Don Budge in 1938 to achieve a grand slam of tennis' four top tournaments-the Australian, French, Wimbledon and U.S. championships. Experts marveled at his vicious ground strokes and slashing serve, his unique ability to cock his wrist at the last instant to put topspin or underspin...
...week's end there was still no response from the royalist side. Undismayed, Noman continued his gentle pressure on the combatants, trying to establish some unity on the fractured republican side, holding out the carrot of Egyptian troop withdrawals to the royalists. As an added inducement to lure the Imam out of his cave and to the conference, Noman announced that he personally would head the republican delegation at Khamir-leaving the hated President Sallal behind...
Besides this stick, the Report recommends a carrot: increased state aid for programs specifically intended to cut down racial imbalance. Because the Commonwealth already provides a substantial portion of local school budgets, and because the Boston School Committee is continually short of funds, both the carrot and the stick are likely to have a significant effect...
...even President Ho believed that his uncovered country could long endure an all-out air war with the U.S. Although Peking loudly rejected Lyndon Johnson's "carrot-and-stick" bid last week, Ho was more cautious. Hanoi radio reported the gist of the President's speech, and Ho released an earlier interview in which he demanded American withdrawal from South Viet...