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...Fifth Avenue parade, even though he did sport a fine green tie. Britain's Prince Philip, 44, in a green tie? "Just a coincidence," chuckled the consort. Thus avoiding controversy and the I.R.A., Philip continued his U.S. tour to promote Variety Clubs International charities and British exports, proving himself quite a salesman while firmly denying that that was his mission. "Any country that can sell tea sets to Russians, export one million bedstead knobs in 1964 and persuade foreigners to buy water from Glasgow can be relied upon to sell anything," he commercialized at a luncheon. As New York...
...missionary in Kerala, India for 17 years, I disagree that "the vast majority" of the catch of shrimp, lobster, mackerel and sardines is sold for export, and that Keralans "largely ignore the sweet potatoes, bananas, pineapples and coconuts that abound" in the state [Feb. 25]. Fish and shrimp are part of the regular diet of millions of people, and the other items mentioned are eaten daily. Unfortunately, the prices of such commodities have risen tremendously recently...
...sale with a 5.13% interest return, one of the highest yields ever placed on a corporate issue of its type. The Federal National Mortgage Association had to pay a record 5.38% to sell $250 million of 14-month debentures. Despite an extraordinarily high 5½% interest, Washington's Export-Import Bank was able to sell only half of a new $700 million issue of participation certificates in existing loans. That embarrassing failure damaged President Johnson's plans to sell off $4.7 billion of U.S. paper assets to cut next year's budget deficit-the size of which...
...politicians of Western Europe and the United States have any real concern for the welfare of the African nations they will remove the barriers they presently impose on the African agricultural export trade," Colin Clark, director of Oxford University's Agricultural Economics Research Institute, recommended last night...
...Peace Corps begins its sixth year, its directors have apparently decided that a major shift in orientation will be needed to accomplish its aim of fermenting democratic revolutions. Rather than let the Peace Corps degenerate into an export model of the 4-H club, they are aiming at wholesale transformations of the communities in which they work. Simple idealism could never attract the kind of manpower they need. Their project requires an entire philosophy of life, a philosophy based on practicality and the value of direct experience. A Choice I Made embodies that philosophy, and at the same time...