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...give stock raisers the benefit of superb sires at low cost, Prentice has a bull donor service. In a pasture, one bull may cover only 20 to 35 cows a year. Prentice divides the semen, thus enables a bull to service up to 20,000 cows. He has one bull that has fathered 118,000 calves. Others long since dead are still siring calves. But he is not stopping there...
...often American assistance programs have backfired on the donor nation because of the perfectly natural resentment of the receiving nation towards its benefactor. The very idea of aid implies inferiority and even pity, concepts repugnant to the boisterous nationalism of many backward areas...
...best conceivable set-up would involve a co-operative venture between the donor and recipient nations. The personnel of the former could be contributed to an independent pool on which the latter would draw for programs of their own creation. The pool itself would determine priorities. Though it would be financed jointly by the aid-giving countries, the administration of the finances should be as independent of these states' policies as possible...
...commuters' center is included in the Program for Harvard College. Dudley members expressed hope that the project would attract a donor willing to give a large sum toward the center's construction. Otherwise, the Administration would have to appropriate the needed $1 million...
Experience has shown that the most successful aid programs--like the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the Colombo Plan--have been administered by international organizations encompassing both donor and recipient. For this reason, some statesmen have wisely proposed that the bulk of American foreign aid contributions be turned over to an International Development Authority...