Word: idas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...respect the hard way. Back in Abilene, Kans., where he was born on Sept. 15, 1899, the only bonds uniting the latest arrival to his six older brothers, including Dwight, then almost nine, were those imposed by duty and family. Milton was a sore disappointment to David Jacob and Ida Stover Eisenhower, who yearned for a daughter. "My father was sorry he never had a girl," recalls brother Earl. "He used to sit on our front porch and make friends with every little girl that came by. I know he was miserable because Milton wasn't a little girl...
...Which One Do You Mean?" By war's end Milton Eisenhower had achieved all the recognition he needed. At an Abilene family reunion, with General Ike just returned from his crusade in Europe, a reporter asked Ida Eisenhower how it felt to have her famous son at home. Her sharp reply: "Which one do you mean...
...raised. But there is skepticism over Ike's third point, the International Development Association. The association would make long-term low-interest loans for projects the bank did not want to back because the borrower might not be able to pay back the money in hard currency. The IDA would accept repayments in soft currency...
...have been coming round to the view that such a fund is necessary to finance vitally needed development programs that the bank cannot back because they contain individual projects that will not pay off. With the proposed new fund, the bank, for example, could finance a dam, while the IDA could finance nonself-liquidating projects needed to develop the area around the dam. One big point in IDA's favor: it would lessen the pressure on the U.S. for shaky loans or grants. It would also cool the heat on the U.S. in another way. The U.S. has often...
Backward Teachers. Sukarno was born in a small village about 60 miles from the seaport city of Surabaja in 1901, the only son of an impoverished Javanese schoolteacher named Sukemi* and a high-caste Balinese mother, Ida Njoman...