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Such skepticism is not hard to fathom. Past administrations have usually responded to congressional criticism of foreign aid by appointing a committee, reshuffling a few alphabetical agencies, giving the program a different name, and hiring a new boss. In its lifetime, the program has had no fewer than seven aliases and 17 administrators-without ever achieving basic reforms. If such reforms do not come this time, it may mean the end of foreign...
...Angostura Bitters, brewed originally at the Orinoco River town of Angostura (now Ciudad Bolivar) by an ex-Prussian army surgeon named J.G.B. Siegert, and now shipped around the world from Port of Spain in millions of bottles containing a sauce whose secret, boasts the company, is "as hard to fathom as Mona Lisa's smile...
...people, some chimneys and a gable. But always Kandinsky was primarily concerned with form: "It must be finally understood that for me form is but the means towards an end, and that I am occupied with the theory of form and give up so much because I want to fathom what is innermost in the form and make it clear, very clear for other people...
Misleading & Disrespectful. In the two years that the Earl of Arran has been writing for the tabloid News, his plebeian readers have discovered in him that favorite British combination-lordly eccentricity. Few subjects are too large, and none too small, to embroil the Earl. He cannot fathom the Common Market, but he can try: "The lady from Bexhill still bangs away at me about a mass importation of French courtesans. But I think there must be more to the Common Mar ket than that." "Electrified" by reading in a Sunday women's page that a daub of lipstick artfully...
WORRY ON DOLLAR EASING IN EUROPE, said the New York Times one morning last week. EUROPE'S CONFIDENCE IN DOLLAR CONTINUES FADING, countered the New York Herald Tribune the same day. These conflicting headlines reflect a situation that is frequently hard to fathom, but that matters more and more. At a time when the U.S. has to worry about its own place in international economic competition, the prejudices of informed opinion abroad are a factor to reckon with. Last week TIME correspondents took their own survey of top businessmen and economists from London to Tokyo...