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...around in different clubs covering every customer market, make sure to put each man in the club where he can do the most good, upgrade the good producers. They look for his natural customers and avoid places where tight cliques make it impossible for a new man to make headway...
...gallon 'hat in Cheyenne, a second sensational gesture of amiability was areadying in faraway Red China. Time for lotus and light, the Communists evidently concluded from the extraordinary demeanor of Big Brother; time to show the impressionables and the skeptics that Red China too was making headway toward cooperation (and toward such long-sought objectives as U.S. diplomatic recognition and membership...
After making no headway at all for a week, the Dow-Jones industrial average last week tumbled more than six points before steadying (closing figure: 419.57, off 4.27). Such war-baby aircraft stocks as Boeing, Douglas, Lockheed and Northrop have dropped as much as 35% from their 1955 highs. In the back of every investor's mind lie some nagging questions.. What would happen to the U.S. economy in the unlikely event of real peace breaking out? What would another sharp cut in defense spending mean to the various segments of industry...
This was one of about 100,000 "treatments" given by Filipino doctors since they first came to help the Vietnamese last fall. In a country where the French colonials only got around to training 150 Vietnamese doctors, the Filipinos are making headway with insufficient equipment against such diseases as smallpox, malaria and beriberi. Fifty-eight Filipino volunteers-doctors, dentists, nurses and social workers-are doing what they can. "It is an inspiring thing." said Secretary of State John Foster Dulles in his address to the U.S. last week, "to see the Philippine people, who only lately achieved their own independence...
...many conferences last week offered convincing evidence that the U.S. is deeply aware of the nuances of Asian politics; his announced long-range program has offered the kind of constructive anti-Communist policy that Free Asia has never had before from the U.S. But to make any kind of headway with that very program, Dulles must soon face the inflexible truth that fine talk about a fine Asian future will have no real meaning until the U.S. stops retreating in the face of Communist aggression...