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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Direct U.S. private investments in Latin America-the dollars that build factories, dig mines, plant crops or drill for petroleum-rose by a record-smashing $500 million in 1956. Last week Washington's statisticians, tentatively casting up sums for the year, estimated the total investment to date at $7 billion-probably enough to keep Latin America the area most favored by U.S. investors.* Adding in U.S. Government loans of more than $1 billion and indirect private investments, e.g., bank loans, stocks and bonds, the experts put the grand total of all U.S. funds invested in Latin America...
...most saturated city was Chicago, where the Daily News snapped up the A.P. series. The Sun-Times countered with the U.P. series. The Tribune hastily put together its own nine-part FBI story, beat the A.P.'s release date on using material from Whitehead's book. Though the Tribune claimed FBI cooperation, the series drew heavily on Whitehead's book for the first three installments, then turned to rewriting FBI stories in the Trib's morgue...
...knowing best," one commentator remarked, "--a kind of vocation to set an incompetant world to rights." This drive to set the world at rights is perhaps implicit in his Socialist creed, but Gaitskell's interpretation of party cant bears the imprint of a man looking for an up-to-date, intellectually solid synthesis. his own words, defining what he sees as the evils of capitalism, illuminate the original approach of Hugh Gaitskell to socialism. "The three evils of the individualistic system," he once wrote, "are inequality of wealth, insecurity of employment, and inefficiency in the use of economic resources...
Minus the benefit of the customary holiday games, the Crimson basketball team will undergo its severest test to date as it opens 1957 with three tough games this week. M.I.T. is first on the agenda, facing the varsity tonight in the I.A.B. at 8:30. Columbia and Pennsylvania will furnish opposition away this weekend...
Heckscher eventually won, defeating Sears, 3 to 0, in the finals. In the semis, Sears defeated Yale's number one man, Harvey Sloane, and Heckscher topped Hamm. Sears turned in his top squash performance to date by toppling the number one men from Williams, Yale and Dartmouth on his way to the final. Hamm accounted for Princeton's top man, while freshman Emmett beat Yale's number two player Ed Meyer...