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Once in business, a new nation must establish embassies around the globe and send a mission to the U.N.-tasks that frequently exhaust both their finances and talent. Occasionally a new nation admits that it just cannot afford the overhead; although it is a U.N. member, Gambia has no U.N. mission, told the Assembly it might not be able to afford the minimum annual U.N. club fee of $40,000. The Maldive Islands near Ceylon are so poor that the U.N. must forward their mail through the Maldivian Philatelic Agency, located in Manhattan down the street from Macy...
...academic achievements didn't begin to exhaust the satisfactions of the summer. The most striking changes were changes in attitude; the image many students had of themselves and their capabilities and goals was permanently altered. Ralph Freeman, one of seven children of illiterate parents, will probably attend Yale. Reginald Dawson has decided to top off his entry into a previously white school by going out for the football team (a recent letter from him says they use him very effectively as a decoy.) Two others, bitter and undirected since going to jail in 1963, say that discussing Baldwin, Richard Wright...
...budget tells businessmen how much the Government may be expected to buy from them, taxpayers how much it will take from them to do the buying with. Within its labyrinth are enough booby traps to bedevil an army of certified public accountants, enough opportunities for sleight of hand to exhaust a prestidigitator. The budget gives the impression of disclosing what everything costs, right down to the last G51 clerk ($3,507), but it carefully conceals such strategic particulars as the spending of the Central Intelligence Agency (estimated to be about $500 million, though there is no exact way of telling...
...recommendations, which concentrate on changing men's ideas about society (rather than immediately challenging the material conditions of their lives). He admits this tension, ("It's like balancing on a high wire.") but sees it as a flexible pre-requisite to any broader change. He wants to exhaust the "moderate alternatives," and if American society can fulfill its basic promises without any major structural changes, so much the better...
...tears were shed in vain and her every word was lost, in the rumble of his engine and the smoke from his exhaust...