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...whose headmaster insisted that his every pupil learn the art of reading fast-and Dillon today riffles through even technical papers at 400 words a minute. While at Pine Lodge. Dillon met and became friends with three heirs to another no table fortune: Nelson. Laurance and John Rockefeller III...
Gobbled Gains. The ambitious scheme faces vast obstacles. India's population, growing faster than the statisticians' slide rules had calculated, will reach 492 million by 1966, gobbling up many gains while it grows. Plan III provides $105 million for birth-control programs (including mobile sterilization units), but the $1,550,000,000 budgeted for "general health improvement" may frustrate the family planners by further lowering the death rate. At best, five years from now the annual per capita income of India's millions will be only $81, and their food intake 17.5 oz. per person...
...finance Plan III. India will have to increase its taxes, which are already heavy, will have to achieve record profits from bureaucratically managed public enterprises, and spur its lagging export program. Even all this will be far from enough. The planners count on some $1 billion yearly in foreign loans. The Aid to India Club (the U.S., Britain. Canada, France, West Germany, Japan and the World Bank) has offered $2,225,000,000 -almost half of which is to come from the U.S. Russia has promised $500 million. Even with all this, the government expects to be $1 billion short...
...Juan will be played by Charles Donahue, and the Commander by A. Combrinck-Graham III. Also in the cast are Amanda Foulger (Ana) and Jere Whiting (Devil). The play is directed by Donald Lyons and produced by Frederic Schwarts...
...patrician Williams College in Williamstown, Mass., the class of 1914 had no trouble picking the Man Most Likely to Succeed. He was bright, moonfaced James Phinney Baxter III, pride of a leading Maine family.* Armed with summa and Phi Beta Kappa key. Valedictorian Baxter headed for Wall Street riches. A brush with TB soon turned him to teaching; but the class prophecy still came true. At 44, Historian Baxter became the youngest of Williams' ten presidents. This month, when he retired at 68, Phinney Baxter was the dean of topflight New England college presidents, and one of the most...