Word: idea
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Privately, he gave foreign newsmen his idea of a fair plebiscite: "The Security Council should give us control of all Kashmir. After that, if you wish, we will have our own referendum...
Fantasy is the idea of Anthony Boucher, 38, a top mystery writer (creator of Sister Ursula, the nun-detective) and J. Francis McComas, 39, onetime radio announcer and wonder-story writer. They will co-edit the new magazine. It took two years to fit Fantasy into Spivak's small operation, which requires a staff of only six to put out the unprofitable Mercury, the profitable Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and 30 cut-down mystery reprints a year...
...usual, to her Greenwich Village walk-up and thought no more about it. But some time later her telephone rang. It was Edward Weeks editor of the Atlantic Monthly, also a Wellesley trustee. Would Miss Clapp have dinner with him? By this time, Miss Clapp had a good idea of what was up. Over brook trout and a bottle of wine at the Ritz-Carlton, Weeks began to ask questions. "Do you sleep well?" he wanted to know. Miss Clapp answered that she did, she was not a worrier...
Nevertheless, said Holman, "as members of an industry that provided four-fifths of the private investment made by American interests abroad last year-totaling $1.5 billion-we are disturbed by the worsening of the investment climate in many countries." Holman thought that Point Four was certainly a fine idea-if it could be made to work. So did the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. This week it gave qualified support to the program-provided that the nations receiving the aid sign treaties "assuring fair treatment of American capital...
Many a businessman agreed with Rockefeller that the program was a noble idea. But they also agreed that U.S. investors would need more assurance that they wouldn't lose their shirts, or have them nationalized, in foreign ventures. This week, the Administration will try to provide some of that assurance. Senate Democratic Leader Scott W. Lucas said the Senate would take up a bill to empower the Export-Import Bank to guarantee foreign investments against 1) inability to convert profits into dollars, and 2) confiscation by foreign governments. Prospects were good for Senate approval...