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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Night School. Woods started on Wall Street at 17 as an office boy. He learned the academics of finance in night school, quickly demonstrated an ability to analyze investment opportunities that should sustain the World Bank's reputation for hardheadedness. Early in his career, Woods formed a close friendship with a bond salesman from Atlanta named Eugene Black. After Black took over the World Bank, he called on Woods to help organize private development corporations in India, Pakistan and the Philippines. Woods's biggest international coup came when he persuaded Egypt's Nasser to compensate the former...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International Finance: Woods's Next Walk | 10/26/1962 | See Source »

...Friends & Heavy Hearts. For a while, it was Florida's Democratic Senator George Smathers who held things up. Smathers boasts of his deep and abiding personal friendship with Jack Kennedy. But that relationship apparently does not extend to politics. As it happened, Smathers was the sponsor of a bill, passed overwhelmingly by both branches of Congress, that would permit self-employed people to take tax deductions on their own pension programs. President Kennedy did not like the bill, since it would mean an unscheduled loss of tax revenue. Smathers had a strong hunch that the President meant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congress: The Death of the 87th | 10/19/1962 | See Source »

...harlequin-style tights. They make anatomically diverting, if irrelevant, comment on the action. Newley is as amiable as he is indefatigable, and by musical's end one has been through so much with his Mr. Littlechap that show and showgoer are knit in intimacy, the kind of factitious friendship that springs up between people who have shared a train wreck, or a bombing raid, or certain opening nights on Broadway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Little Chaps' Littlechap | 10/12/1962 | See Source »

...half the world's aircraft manufacturers have been struggling to develop a latter-day replacement for the traditional workhorse of the airways, Douglas Aircraft's 26-year-old DC-3. The planemaker that has come closest is Royal Netherlands Fokker Aircraft, whose sleek, twin-turboprop F-27 Friendship is now used by 36 airlines spanning all six continents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Netherlands: Profitable Friendship | 10/12/1962 | See Source »

...Assist for the Kaiser. Fokker's past is not all friendship. The company was founded in 1913 in Germany by a ruthless, conniving aircraft designer named Anthony Fokker, who shucked off his allegiance to The Netherlands to build military aircraft for the Kaiser. Baron von Richthofen and his Flying Circus battled to fame in Fokker triplanes. After Germany's defeat, Anthony Fokker slipped back into The Netherlands, taking along six trainloads of tools and aircraft parts, and set up a new plant. His dependable F-VII monoplane spawned the rise of commercial airlines in the 1920s...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Netherlands: Profitable Friendship | 10/12/1962 | See Source »

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