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...Secretary of State Dean Rusk and the foreign ministers of the 20 countries involved reached final, formal agreement on the time, place and agenda. The meeting will be held April 12-14 at the sunny Uruguayan seaside resort of Punta del Este. The agenda will include discussions on joint inter-American programs for electric power development, road building, dam construction and other internal improvements; the expansion of industry and trade; economic integration through a Latin American common market; and the need for less emphasis on Latin American spending for military purposes and more on spending for scientific research, public health...
...inter-disciplinary character of the Joint Center was originally regarded as one of its chief attractions. The PR brochure declares that, "If inter-dependent people create inter-linked problems, inter-disciplinary scholarship may be a prerequisite for effective action." Members of the Center are inclined to smile at such language. Most regard the institution as a kind of "academic holding company," designed to attract contributions and contracts that would not ordinarily be offered to individual researchers of university departments...
...Significant Contributions." CIA is only one of nine agencies* in the U.S. intelligence community, but it is primus inter pares and the right arm of the National Security Council. Master Spy Allen Dulles not only sketched its functions but also the kind of men the nation needed to attract to such duty. "The agency," he suggested to Congress, "should be directed by a relatively small but elite corps of men with a passion for anonymity and a willingness to stick at that particular...
...wildest places," says Inter-Continental Chairman John Gates, "because we concentrate on areas where tourism needs to be developed. In the back of the house, we crank in all the American know-how and labor-saving efficiency, while in front we try to achieve the personalized standards of European service...
...White House. That is sometimes a problem, since many of Inter-Continental's 10,000 employees in 27 foreign countries had never worn shoes or used a knife and fork until the hotel began training them. Few early guests of the Beirut Phoenicia will forget the experience. Maids burst into occupied guest rooms to plug in vacuums to clean the halls. Water pipes sprang torrential leaks, turning lobby light fixtures into overhead fountains and drenching clothes stowed in bedrooms. Such difficulties were overcome, and Pan Am flew in 900 travel agents from all over Western Europe...