Word: directors
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TRADE. Anderson's drive to get other industrial nations of the free world to lower their trade barriers against U.S. goods has already brought dramatic results. At the late September meeting of the World Bank-IMF, Sweden's Per Jacobsson, managing director of IMF, agreed with Anderson that the "new situation' called for a "fresh examination" of international economic policies. The IMF executive board urged member nations with adequate gold and dollar reserves to end discrimination against U.S. goods "with all feasible speed." A few days later, the meeting of the 37-nation General Agreement on Tariffs...
...there was no evidence that it would produce cancer in humans. And anyway, by the standards used on the rats, a human would have to stuff down about 15,000 lbs. of cranberries a day over the years to get the same symptoms. Said Dr. Chester E. Cross, director of the University of Massachusetts Cranberry Station: he would as soon eat a helping of tainted cranberries as smoke a cigarette...
...tidy, it's an administrative nightmare," said the director. "But it works." The Colombo Plan, with a tiny staff of clerks, is a kind of clearing house for economic relations between 15 "recipient" nations of Southeast Asia and six "donor" nations-the U.S., Britain Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Since the plan was started in Ceylon nine years ago, primarily as a mutual-aid forum of ten British Commonwealth nations, it has become the accepted regional headquarters for development plans affecting a quarter of the world's population. In that time $6 billion in foreign aid has been...
Allen Drury is a thin-haired reporter who spent 16 competent years on the Capitol Hill beat for United Press, the Washington Evening Star and the New York Times before he unburdened himself of a book. Otto Preminger is a bagel-bald producer-director who has a reputation for outbidding everyone for film rights to bestsellers. Last week Preminger and Drury got together on a deal likely to make cash registers jingle for a long while. Happily counting the returns from his Anatomy of a Murder and preparing to start shooting on Exodus, Preminger bought the rights to Drury...
...marble interior of the shrine, eleven chapels which will project from the outside of the building, and some 20 altars within. Catholics will have contributed more than $30 million by the time the shrine is completed ($18 million has been raised so far). Says Monsignor Thomas J. Grady, fifth director of the shrine project: "God was good to us. In the five years it took to build the upper church-with as many as 200 men a day working 200-300 feet up-no one was killed or seriously injured...