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...trying to develop a soft cushion of economic development around China," says one Japanese Foreign Office expert. This "encirclement by prosperity" resulted last April in the largest all-Asian conference that Tokyo had witnessed since General Hideki Tojo's original Co-Prosperity Sphere conclave ia 1943. Six Asian nations attended-Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, Laos and South Viet Nam, while Cambodia and Indonesia sent observers. The consequent exchange of information about economic aid needs and Sato's reminder that Southeast Asia receives only $2.50 per capita in foreign aid from all sources (v. $5 for Africa...
...fellow who does this happy bit of humanizing for Bobby is Bill Minkin, 25, a Brooklyn College television instructor. Neither he nor his three collaborators plan to quit their jobs to go into full-time comedy cutting; but they have a little cushion to sit on. In three weeks, the record has sold 450,000 copies and become one of the hottest singles of the new year...
...Railroads, Nord Aviation and Hispano-Suiza, ripped up the standard-gauge track between the two somnolent towns, replaced it with a concrete monorail shaped-in profile-like an inverted T. Berlin's aerotrain resembles a sleek silver bus, rides less than an inch above the rail on a cushion of air produced by two 50-h.p. Renault Gordini engines, propels and brakes itself with a 260-h.p. jet-booster aircraft engine rear-mounted on its roof...
Dunster's defense shocked the Finleymen by intercepting Eliot's first three passes and returning each of them for touchdowns. By the time the offense got its hands on the ball, the Dunsters had a 20 point cushion...
Frederic J. Gruber '67, president of HSA told the managers that the $40,000 capital fund would allow the HSA to experiment with a number of new business possibilities which it has never before had the financial cushion to risk. "We could never feel secure investing in new possibilities," Gruber said, "when there were real sinkers in other areas...