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...exist in any underdeveloped nation; in some countries, none of them exist, nor is there anything inevitable about them attaining them in the future. It is too easy for the U.S. to expect its aid to fulfill impossible goals, he said, adding that "it is not surprising that the giver overvalues his gift...
...quoting the Harvard Government professor as stating that ocrruption is not only inevitable but enviable in government, and that bribery is a modern necessity. Bribery, to me, has always represented greed and avarioe and cowardice, greed on the part of the taker, and cowardice on the part of the giver, since it effectively buys his desired ends without ever exposing them to the public eye, much less to the "reasonable discussion" mentioned by Edward C. Banfield, professor of Government as occasionally engaged in by political officials...
...intentions of Architect Eero Saarinen, who died fortnight ago at 51, his partners will move the offices of Eero Saarinen & Associates from its longtime headquarters in Bloomfield Hills, Mich., to Hamden, Conn., sometime next month. Still on his drawing boards in Bloomfield were the daring, Finnish-born form giver's final designs, among them plans for a 37-story Manhattan headquarters for the Columbia Broadcasting System. "Eero was especially excited about this design," recalled Saarinen Partner John Dinkeloo. "He felt he was going back to the tradition of Louis Sullivan and making a step forward from that dramatic...
...telephone to the accompaniment of such slogans as "Fight Cancer!" or "Stop the Killers!" were rattled themselves last week by some searching criticism. According to a study sponsored and paid for by the Rockefeller Foundation, there is a disturbingly solid basis for the doubts that come to every giver as he shells out-where does the money really go? Aren't there too many hand's out? Is this the best way to collect and spend the public's money...
Died. Maria Luisa de Arana Duke. 39, Madrid-bred descendant of Spanish nobility, third wife of State Department Protocol Chief (and tobacco heir) Angier Biddle Duke, graceful giver of benefit parties in Washington and New York, star campaigner for John Kennedy in Spanish-speaking East Harlem; in the crash of a single-engined taxi plane; near New York City's La Guardia Airport; as she was returning to her Southampton summer home, shortly after helping her husband say goodbye to visiting Pakistani President Ayub Khan at Idlewild...