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...only one, the cement trust, is earning a clear profit. Air Ceylon consists of a single DC-3, employs dozens of executives to keep it flying. The national salt corporation was so mismanaged that although the island is washed by the salt-rich Indian Ocean, it has had to import salt from abroad. Even Ceylon's Communists are complaining. While carefully exempting Mrs. Bandaranaike from criticism ("the only man in the Cabinet"), Cambridge-educated, pro-Soviet Red Leader Pieter Keuneman lamented: "This government is not going any place...
Still holding things up was the foreign aid bill. A House-Senate conference committee had agreed on a $3 billion appropriation, $1.9 billion less than the Kennedy Administration originally requested. Now at issue was a House amendment prohibiting the Export-Import Bank of Washington from guaranteeing loans in commercial transactions with Communist nations-such as the much-publicized wheat deal with Russia...
...Africans and Asians, a major problem is eliminating the prejudice against Christianity as an unwanted "cultural import." The young churches of the East are nationalizing their hierarchies and structures as fast as means allow and are developing mission forces of their own. More than 200 missionaries have been sent from one Asian land to another to preach the faith in unmistakably non-Western accents...
...policies would revert to the Interior Department, where it lay during the Roosevelt and Truman Administrations. Under Eisenhower and Kennedy, the responsibility had been divided among the Commerce Department, the Federal Power Commission, the Office of Emergency Planning and the White House itself. Now the complicated job of determining import quotas will be done under a single roof. Johnson's motives were partly political: as an oil-state politician, he wanted to avoid possible charges of favoritism. All the same, the result was hailed by the Independent Petroleum Association of America on the grounds that the Interior Department...
There is one authentic yawn stifler in Supper, an inspired import from the British music halls named Tessie O'Shea. The O'Shea is fat and sassy, swoops about like a bat on a binge, and pitches irresistibly into a medley of cockney nostalgia, as in Don't Take Our Charlie for the Army. Tessie O'Shea has no relation whatever to the plot of The Girl Who Came to Supper. Lucky lady...