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Into this setting come volunteers from ACCION (Americans for Community Action in Other Countries), a sort of private Peace Corps. Their primary job is to develop a community spirit in the barrios (slums) and to stimulate the habit of self-help. What complicates their task is the numbing sense of futility bred by the sprawling poverty. In Caracas, for instance, innumerable tin and cardboard huts perch uncertainly on the scenic hillsides. They are put up overnight and house hundreds of thousands of peasants who flood the city seeking work and a better life. They find neither. Few make more than...
With only a few persons on stage, Munger is less successful. Part of the trouble is with Cooper and Licht, who simply make their parts too much alike for any kind of interplay to develop. Lack of contrast often kills the verbal sparring between the good-time-Charlie god and his sarcastic servant. And Munger has a perverse talent for hiding one actor behind another even when the small stage doesn't make it inevitable...
...surprise-and after weeks of denying that he wanted it-the nomination of the Dominican Revolutionary Party went by acclamation to Juan Bosch, the onetime President who was tossed out by the military in 1963. Bosch insisted that he had been drafted, said that his goal would be to "develop this country in such a way that our sons and the sons of our sons will live in dignity...
Just as the human fetus has long been thought capable of absorbing adequate nourishment even if the mother is starving, so the human brain has been considered able to develop normally even in a starving infant. But this could be an outdated thesis, said researchers at a Boston symposium on mental retardation convened by the Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Foundation. There is a growing body of evidence that mental retardation is sometimes the result of malnutrition, and in the case of premature babies, who by definition have not been nourished up to a normal birth weight, the effects...
...Mahindra has linked his plants with Telex communications, keeps track of production with PERT (for performance evaluation and review technique), which was originally devised in the U.S. to coordinate production of the Polaris weapons system. Charat Ram took the lead in founding the All-India Management Association to help develop new talent. Says he: "There is a vast shortage of good management talent in India...