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Economic Aid. The new program offers long-term aid on a loan basis to the underdeveloped countries of Asia and Africa to help provide the visible signs of economic progress that their peoples are learning to expect and demand. The method of providing capital is entirely new: creation of a Development Loan Fund, to replace former handout-style grants, through which the U.S. will be able to channel $500 million in fiscal 1958 and $750 million in both fiscal 1959 and 1960 into basic foreign-growth projects such as roads, dams, utilities, "the sinews of economic strength...
...Their appearance reflected their role. They were lost among the multihued robes, top-heavy turbans and richly feathered headgear of ebony-featured emissaries who had been summoned to London to speed the independence of some 33 million ill-assorted black British subjects in Nigeria. The result will be the creation of the largest independent state in Africa, the fourth most populous in the Commonwealth...
Vigorous Shush. From Glasgow, Balmoral and elsewhere, the merger plan has brought threats of secession from the church by outraged dominies. Anglicans had little to say, possibly because the addition of elders to an already existing hierarchy is not so shocking to them as the creation of a new hierarchy is to Scots. But privately, Church of England leaders kept their ears trained on Edinburgh. Last week the General Assembly in Edinburgh elected Dr. George F. MacLeod its new moderator despite his known promerger leanings, vigorously shushed a delegate who opposed his election. But whatever sounds of ecumenical accord come...
...concept where the good student is sub-ordinated to a perverted notion of the 'well-rounded' person. If there is to be a revival of academic interest at Yale, then there will have to be a de-emphasis in the whole sphere of extracurricular activities. The recent creation of the Ivy League is a significant step in preventing undue emphasis on athletics...
...strength. In his refusal to make explicit judgments - leaving it to the reader to draw his own conclusions - Connell has made his first steps in the direction of the goal set by that master of the short story, James Joyce, who argued that "the artist, like the God of creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, paring his fingernails...