Word: interes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...South Africa's gross national product has in creased 20% to $8.6 billion, and the Rand Daily Mail's stock market index has nearly quadrupled. With exports of products as varied as wheat and mining machinery running at a record $1.5 billion rate, South Africa boasts an inter national payments surplus of $200 mil lion, could write off its few debts with a mere four months' gold production...
...front page editorial arguing that no other measure except formation of the League could preserve amateurism in college football. The seven college athletic directors agreed to discuss the problem, but there was little immediate progress except for the addition of a Penn. Harvard game to the existing inter Ivy contests...
...mining industry into shape. Under Union Boss Lechin, mine employment soared from 19,000 to 29,000; by 1960 the mines were losing $10 million a year, and only aid from the U.S. kept the industry going. A year later, Paz signed an agreement with the U.S., the Inter-American Development Bank and West Germany for $38 million to modernize the mines, promising in return to lop 6,000 men from the payrolls. Lechin and his miners threatened civil war. But Paz had enough political strength to ride out the storm. By last week 2,400 miners had been laid...
Next day the House passed the $312 million IDA bill, and L.B.J. gave the Latinos something else to cheer about. Into Teodoro Moscoso's old job as U.S. representative to the Inter-American Committee (CIAP), which guides the Alianza, went Walt Whitman Rostow, 47, chairman of the State Department Policy Planning Council and a man with both the prestige and power to cut through the Alianza's bureaucratic underbrush. The total performance left Peru's Ambassador Celso Pastor bedazzled. "This marks the beginning of a new era," he said. Or as one Administration adviser put it: "Latin...
...response to HCUA recommendations about elementary language instruction, room rents, parietal hours, Radcliffe inter-house, major library improvements, and even the relatively simple comments about inadequate lighting, the typical Administration reply has been, in effect, "We just didn't want it today...