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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...small (pop. 1,600,000) country's G.N.P. has increased by a phenomenal 40%, highest sustained growth in Central America. From the Alliance for Progress has come $30 million for such projects as construction of 350 miles of roads to stimulate dairy and beef production, reduce dependence on cotton. Foreign investors have teamed with local entrepreneurs to produce everything from TV sets to insecticides-and a new class of forward-looking managers, such as Businessman (construction, automobile parts) Enrique Pereira, 42, is emerging to "take the country out of the feudal ages for everybody's benefit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Alianza: Three on the Go | 11/26/1965 | See Source »

...guarani at 126 to the dollar has not budged in five years), foreign investment has increased steadily. U.S. firms have spent more than $25 million to build meat-packing plants, a bottled-gas facility, a hydroelectric station and an oil refinery. Last year, exports (mainly beef, lumber and cotton) earned $50 million, 23% more than 1963, and this year may rise another 10%. Some $27 million in Alianza aid has gone into agricultural, educational and communications projects, helped push 1,200 miles of paved roads into the rich but unexploited interior. Though the country's per capita G.N.P...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Alianza: Three on the Go | 11/26/1965 | See Source »

...turning point in the struggle against illiteracy," whereby in 1966 UNESCO will organize at least eight pilot projects stressing selectivity. The United Nations Special Fund is expected to contribute $24 million to the program. The new African state of Mali, for example, wants to make 100,000 cotton and rice farmers literate to increase their productivity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Illiteracy: The Uncomprehending 40% | 11/19/1965 | See Source »

...Buckle. Bonding has also opened new vistas for hard-to-manage materials. Mohair jackets and coats, infamous for bagging and stretching, can now be stabilized with a simple backing of cotton sheeting or tricot. Loose-weave hopsack and tweed suits no longer sag in the seat and buckle at the knee, keep their shape as well as an all-Dacron suit. Lace, once too fragile for anything but brides and banquet tables, now can be used for all-purpose coats and dresses. Women's heavy knitted suits and dresses, often made double-thick to prevent stretching and wrinkling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Products: Stuck on Each Other | 11/19/1965 | See Source »

...Crusade. One reason for the slowdown, of course, is that late fall is the peak of the cotton-picking season, and many Negroes are too busy toting to worry about voting. Also, without doubt, many fear white retaliation if they register. Nonetheless, admits Clarence Mitchell, N.A.A.C.P.'s chief Washington lobbyist, "we need to put in more effort." The most conspicuous absentee from the registration campaign has been Martin Luther King, who for years raised Negro suffrage as his battle cry. Since winning the Nobel Prize, "De Lawd," as his followers call King, has been so preoccupied with global affairs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Civil Rights: The Law & De Lawd | 11/5/1965 | See Source »

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