Word: controllable
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Most U.S. planners are doubtful that Khrushchev will be any more cooperative on joint economic development than he has been in the past; moreover, the technical obstacles to U.S.-U.S.S.R. foreign aid-e.g., project control, currency convertibility-are large. But the President, buoyed up by the success of his personal diplomacy to date, intends to press hard for his new approach with Khrushchev this week. As he said in his TV talk with Prime Minister Macmillan in London, "There are millions of people today who are living without sufficient food, shelter, clothing and health facilities. They are not going...
...week's end, Ezra Benson called in the press, read a letter he had sent to Mitchell. Its gist: "The proposed regulations . . . retain the concept of federal intervention and administrative control and regimentation that is contrary to the principles of this Administration and that is so repugnant to agriculture." Benson's remedy for the migrants: more study...
...coast bordering Ethiopia, this desert patch was known as Italian Somaliland. In Mussolini's heyday it became a bridgehead for his conquest of Italian East Africa. Now after years of somnolence, it is back in the news-once again as a trouble spot. The Italians, who kept postwar control of their onetime colony under a temporary U.N. trusteeship, due to wind up at the end of 1960, have announced that Somalia may become independent any time the Somalis like...
Gripping the table to control his Irish temper, Jim Hagerty replied with unexpected docility that he "would expect" the forthcoming television chat of Eisenhower and Macmillan to include a report on the issues. When the program produced mostly generalizations,, newsmen looking for amplification found that Hagerty and the British spokesmen were "unavailable...
Strong Medicine. Yet all the big innovations-images of the future-depend on local control and local money. Few states really control curriculums except New York, with its 175-year-old Board of Regents (patterned on French education). And few states provide enough money. All the states together carry 40% of the total U.S. school budget, compared to 57% by local governments...