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...service. A search through his papers at Princeton University (they were donated by his widow) last week showed that he had proposed 1) that the U.S. give Russia a $10 billion postwar credit, and 2) that the U.S. conserve its raw-material resources for the next two generations and import from Russia to meet domestic needs. This combination of plans, of course, would have been of great help to Russia...
...more Indians than there are Americans and Russians put together, more people in India (357 million) than there are in all of Europe outside Russia. And still 5,000,000 more Indians are born every year. To provide even a substandard diet for its people, the Indian government must import some 3,000,000 tons of grain each year...
Razing the Roof. He still had one item of unfinished business: revenge on the bazaar merchants, 80% of whom had cooperated with the strike. (The merchants dislike Premier Zahedi's government because many of them are no longer able to connive in profitable import deals.) In reprisal, the cops had painted identifying marks on the closed shops. When the merchants arrived to unshutter their shops on the next business day, waiting troops stopped them: "You wanted to close, now stay closed." Overhead, gangs of Dadsetan's men, armed with crowbars and picks, ripped up nearly 500 feet...
While seeming to throttle stage & screen with one hand, television is generously offering help with the other. On Broadway last week, theatergoers and critics gave a modest approval to a TV import: Horton Foote's new play, The Trip to Bountiful, starring Lillian Gish (see THEATER). Last March millions of televiewers saw an hour-long version of the same play, with all but two of the same cast, on the Goodyear-Philco TV Playhouse. Robert Howard Lindsay's The Chess Game, seen in February on the Kraft TV Theater, is scheduled for a Broadway opening later this season...
...desks will be full-sized, single-pedestal models, replacing worn ones now in use, and the present "victory" desks, small, drawerless relies of wartime import. It has not yet been decided whether they will be of wood, metal, or a combination...