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...last week returned to the same city and picked up the pieces. On this occasion, the third meeting of the two-year-old Committee of 21 on economic development, Washington sent its best delegation in Latin American memory, headed by Under Secretary of State Douglas Dillon, who brought along the new $500 million Eisenhower plan...
Erasing the Doubts. The prestigious U.S. delegation, headed by Dillon and including U.S. Inter-American Development Bank Director Robert Cutler, ICA Latin American Chief Rollin Atwood, Development Loan Fund Managing Director Vance Brand, Assistant Treasury Secretary Graydon Upton, listened, argued, learned. Dillon's speech erased most of the Latin Americans' doubts...
...fundamental task at Bogota," said Dillon, "is to outline the route by which the peoples of the Americas can achieve the material progress they desire without any sacrifice of fundamental freedoms. We must bring fresh hope to the less privileged, help them to replace a hovel with a home, to acquire ownership of land." The Eisenhower plan is only "a first step. We expect to continue our support with new funds." He spoke directly to Schmidt's fears: The new social reform program is "in addition to, and not in substitution for, assistance for basic economic and industrial development...
...Eisenhower plan is deliberately aimed at producing quick, visible results, such as low-cost housing. It does not tackle the hard, basic job of building an industrial economy that will routinely produce good-paying jobs and good housing. Doing that job, says Under Secretary of State Douglas Dillon, U.S. delegation chief at Bogota, and a thoughtful banker with a refreshing disdain for diplomatic cant, may easily cost $10 billion...
Gunsmoke (CBS, 10-10:30 p.m ) In the season's premiere, Matt Dillon shoots his way into his sixth year...