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...wealthy merchant. It was the great love of his life, and he celebrated it in his exuberant 1918 Double Portrait with a Wineglass, in which a violet-stockinged Bella holds the artist up in the air, lifting him joyously above the streets, while an angel representing their daughter Ida hovers overhead...
...Ida Picker's play "The House on Tomorrow Street" is a delicate slice of crummy modern life. Miss Picker is really talented: she succeeds in capturing a lower class tawdriness without making it either tragic or sentimental...
...Poor to Pay. IDA gives credit only to countries so poor that they can not afford to pay even the World Bank's modest 5.5% interest rate, let alone the higher rates of conventional lending institutions. It charges no interest, gets only three-fourths of 1% annual service fee to cover its administrative costs...
...nations that have received IDA loans, India has benefited most, receiving $485 million for industrial imports, railways and telecommunications. Pakistan is next with credits of $242.7 million, $58 million of it for the Indus Basin development. IDA has also lent to emerging African nations a total of $72 million for such projects as a 112-mile, all-weather highway across Swaziland and school construction in Tanganyika. Latin America has been granted nearly $100 million to build transportation and agricultural facilities and to improve municipal water supplies...
...Busy to Sign. Compared with the $1.7 billion economic aid program of the U.S., and even the combined aid programs of other Western nations, IDA is still pretty small potatoes. But it is making loans that would not other wise be granted for projects that might not otherwise be built, and many of the projects promise to bring enormous returns to the countries involved. There is far less likelihood that the U.S. will ever get much in return-either in hard currency or lasting gratitude-for its contributions which account for 32% of all IDA funds. When Kenya was granted...