Word: globalization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Through Law Center in Washington, which is scheduled to be moved next month to permanent headquarters in Geneva. By mobilizing 100,000 lawyers across the world in a campaign of research and publicity, Rhyne hopes to persuade politicians that international law is no myth, that the sheer necessities of global trade and travel are giving birth to hundreds of practical agreements (in aviation, shipping, tariffs, etc.) that can and should lead to "an overall world judicial system...
...bills. As chairman of House Appropriations' foreign operations subcommittee, Passman, a graduate of Bogalusa Commercial Business College, has long been convinced that the best way to lose foreign friends is to "start supporting them with gifts and favors." Wielding what he calls "a countryman's ax" on global giveaways, Passman since 1955 has been principally responsible for trimming presidential aid requests by an average of 20% a year, for a total of nearly $20 billion...
...From headquarters in Norwalk, Conn., this global operation is run by a man with a famous name: Chester W. Nimitz Jr., 50, son of the naval hero and himself a retired rear admiral. Salty-tongued Chet Nimitz, who served in the submarine service in World War II and later got his technical training as an executive at Texas Instruments, went to Perkin-Elmer as a vice president in 1961 because he wanted to be nearer the salt water. When the company's president resigned because of illness eight months ago, Nimitz took the helm...
Messianic Materialism. He does indeed. Along with Isaiah and the Gospels, and in far less murky prose, The Rich and the Poor is a Baedeker to the Great Global Society. Based on a series of lectures for the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. in 1961, Economist Ward's book is an evangelistic yet pragmatic argument that the developed nations must generously employ their scientific and economic resources to help the world's havenots. Johnson has repeatedly echoed the same theme...
...longer rely on global giveaways as an open-end solution for surpluses. For all its good intentions, the Food for Peace Program cannot be greatly expanded without running into serious economic and political problems about world commodity prices; as it is, the U.S. is accused of "dumping" surpluses on nations that would go hungry without them. Moreover, most countries receiving this aid, such as India, which took 20% of the entire U.S. grain crop last year-and needed more-are unable to import available grain for lack of handling and storage facilities...