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Totally without industry, Laos has only two legal exports of any importance: 1) benzoin and 2) stick-lac, an insect product that is used as an ingredient in lacquer and varnish. But the country's main crop is opium (one-third of world production") grown on the mountaintops by Meo tribesmen who also profess to be werewolves. Laos' biggest import is U.S. dollars-for the past five years U.S. aid has run from $43 million to $54 million a year...
...audiences who associate De Sica with some of Italy's greatest postwar protest films (The Bicycle Thief, Shoeshine, Umberto D. and The Roof), his participation in this featherweight import may come as something of a surprise. But since the films that earned him a place in cinema history have all been box-office laggards in Italy, De Sica is forced to direct and act in cream-puff romances in order to scrape up the financing for an occasional picture of his choice. In The Maid he almost seems to be describing his own professional plight-and that...
...this glossy French import, the gloomy patriarch of the dynasty (banks, refineries, mines, newspapers) is white-thatched Jean Gabin, a cold-eyed, cunning old autocrat. When men or industries get out of line, Papa Jean straightens everything out with a deft and ruthless hand. He arranges a wedding between an innocent man and his own ward when she gets pregnant by a Gabin employee. He bribes a high government official on behalf of a military relative. With high handed dispatch, he breaks up an affair between his luxury-loving cousin and a fifth-rate actress. Only when he gambles with...
...miles over pasture and corn land to a white silo that marks the boundary of his 1,700-acre farm. But for the last few years he has had little time to enjoy the view, has been intent on a much broader horizon. As a director of the Export-Import Bank since 1954, Vance Brand, 52, has traveled more than a quarter of a million miles at the job of overseeing longterm, low-interest loans for the world's underdeveloped nations. So well has he handled the job that President Eisenhower last week nominated him for a post that...
...Senator Homer Capehart of Indiana persuaded him to become secretary of an advisory committee to strengthen U.S. loan agencies. Brand helped draft the law that expanded the Export-Import Bank's role and lending authority, made it autonomous under a board of directors. He moved into the Eximbank as a director. In 1956 Brand performed his biggest coup by persuading a group of Government agencies and eleven private banks to grant an unprecedented $329 million loan to help stabilize the Argentine economy after Peron's fall...