Word: interestingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bulk of state funds will go for the requirements of an exploding population: schools, mental hospitals, highways, new buildings, welfare-and interest costs on bond issues floated to pay for major projects already begun. Much of the increase will go to take care of schoolchildren and longer-living indigent old people, who pay no taxes themselves...
Even Moscow's basic offer-a loan of $130 million to be paid back over twelve years at a mere 2½% interest-has worked to its advantage. In Indian eyes, this makes the Bhilai project a business deal rather than an embarrassing "gift" (since 1947 the U.S. has showered a whopping $1.75 billion on India in gifts, loans and credits). Furthermore, at cost to its own steel industry, the Soviet Union has been sending India its top talent. "They have to be our best men," said one Russian. "You can say it is a matter of face...
...Space. One day in 1954, a two-paragraph item in the San Francisco Chronicle caught Alec Cushing's eye. Reno had bid for the Olympic Games. Cushing had only one chair lift at Squaw then, but he decided to apply too. "I had no more interest in getting the games than the man in the moon," he admits. "It was just a way of getting some newspaper space." The space he got in West Coast papers brought a flood of encouraging letters, made up Cushing's mind: "When I got letters from all those people saying what...
...actor who seems to play actor on stage. Edward Finnegan's comic skill, in the role of an aging and only occasionally outer-directed apartment dweller, is the source of considerable amusement despite, and perhaps because of, its irrelevancy. Robert G.Skinner designed the setting, which is of no special interest; Lewis W.Lehman's lights are excellent, as are Esther Small's costumes...
...between the U.S. and Cuba. Our well publicized calls for intervention or punishment in various forms are antagonizing not only the Cubans but people of all Latin American countries. In a conversation with Gustavo Olguin, Mexican movie and television executive, I learned that the Mexican people are taking great interest in our conduct toward Cuba, and that there is now a growing wave of anti-Americanism in that country as a result of the pronouncements of the past few weeks. If the United States is to retain the respect of the Spanish-speaking countries south of the Rio Grande...