Word: importance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...failure, as Fairbank sees it, is that U.S. scholars simply let French academicians worry about Viet Nam since France was involved there for so long. To staff its Southeast Asia Program, Cornell, in fact, has had to import French, British and Japanese experts. Another problem is the difficulty of gaining such expertise. A solid scholar on Viet Nam must master the Ciinese language, then Vietnamese, and also be able to handle the anthropology, economics, politics and history of that confusing country. That particular blend of ability and interest has been scarce, and it takes about ten years to train such...
...Senate cut such trade roughly in half. It voted to limit arms trade by the U.S. Export-Import Bank with underdeveloped countries to 7½% of the bank's lending capacity, thus slashing by 50% next year's planned $256 million in such loans. After that, Minority Leader Everett Dirksen lost a battle to bar Ex-Im Bank from financing machine tools for an Italian Fiat plant in Russia, but Virginia's Harry Byrd succeeded in getting through an amendment forbidding Ex-Im to ex tend credit to governments that send supplies to any nation "with which...
Beach Red. Peter Bowman's moving free-verse novel about a Marine detachment on a World War II Pacific beach head was an understated masterpiece. In turning it into a film, however, Actor-Director Cornel Wilde has under lined its import so heavily as to convert Bowman's subtle poetry into monumental mawkishness. The message, that war is hell and soldiers are better off holding hands with the girls back home, is pounded out with a naivete beyond belief...
...Harvey and Haliday turn the moviehouse-coffee house which they started in 1953 into the boutique empire which they possess in 1967? Largely by filling their movie house with movies which they themselves imported. Their company, Janus Films, was the first to import Fellini, Antonioni, and Bergman. Last year, they sold Janus Films (for quite a handsome profit) partly because they were being squeezed out by the big companies, and partly because buying films was "an ulcer business." "You had to make your decision two minutes after you saw the film, and you never knew whether it would...
...system uses the American price to evaluate chemicals rather than the importing company's price. The American price is usually higher, thereby artificially raising the value of the import on which the tariff is placed. It was a defensive measure used against Germany in the First World War, and once established it never relented. Nations at the Kennedy Round were, understandably, insistent upon the abolition of this discriminatory practice. Because they did not have specific authority under the 1962 Trade Act to abolish it, the U.S. negotiators agreed tentatively to seek abolition, in return for more concessions from the Common...