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...development loan, it expects the applicant to show that his project is well conceived and that his credit is good. The bank expects to make a modest profit on its international loans, and tends its business so shrewdly that in 16 years of lending it has not suffered a default. Last year the bank opened its vaults for $646 million in loans to 19 countries. Who got most of the money? Not Africa or Asia. Latin America...
...default of dramatic momentum, Director Joshua Logan soups up the melodramatic attitudinizing-soulful head clutchings, venomous spittings-in-the-face, and caged-animal stage stalking. Only in the last act does one scene come alive with fury and clarity. Diana Sands, a cool, sexy hustler who has worn the body-and-soul-for-sale sign longer than the tiger, proposes marriage to him. Too sterile for love, too cynical for hope, she suggests only that they huddle together for animal warmth in their loneliness. In the psychic fatigue of her voice, there is a fox at bay, and one hears...
...exempt Freshmen from requirements long before it could discover whether their seminars really satisfied them. "To let a significant experiment which seems to have monopolized the experience of participators proceed without from," the CRIMSON sourly commented in April, "is to commit the College to a policy by default...
Experiments & Excuses. Unlike the nationalized railroads of Europe and Asia, the U.S.'s private lines have already surrendered by default to the airlines. Experiments with low-slung Talgo trains seven years ago failed because of excessive vibration and passenger queasiness at speeds up to 100 m.p.h. As for future attempts, Pennsylvania Railroad Chairman James M. Symes offers the prevailing view: "We do not believe we could attract patronage from the air and highways to justify the expenditure...
...Walkaways, who default in their FHA mortgages by simply dropping the keys in the mailboxes of their homes and walking away from them...