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...Duke University) and at M.I.T. ('26), where he got a degree in business and engineering administration and made Phi Beta Kappa. After graduation he stayed on to work for M.I.T.'s Technology Review, was made editor in 1930, spent the next nine years picking up a general know-how of the whole spectrum of science and engineering, developing a facility for tight organization and clear, candid self-expression...
...office as independent Ceylon's fourth Prime Minister, Bandaranaike still commands a huge popularity, but he seems to be tugged steadily leftward. A stream of "diplomats" from behind the Iron Curtain have been pouring into Ceylon to offer trade, aid and advice. Little by little Western capital and know-how is being withdrawn, frightened away by increasing talk of nationalization. Unemployment increases steadily (the Trincomalee turnover itself threw 10,000 dock workers out of work...
...twelve to 14 hours a day for 15? and nonpayment of workers' health-insurance premiums−or any taxes, for that matter." Though the Iranian government has since moved to prevent the recurrence of such abuses, Ebtehaj conceded wistfully that underdeveloped lands need not only capital and technical know-how but the fair play traditions embodied in "your Common...
...Tokyo's Taizo Ishizaka, president of the Japanese Federation of Economic Organizations and president of the Tokyo Shibaura Electric Co., suggested an international agency to exchange technical know-how and services, thus promote industrial development and combat anti-foreignism in backward countries. In much of the world, said Ishizaka, there is still a blind prejudice that "capitalism leads to imperialism" and alien rule...
...British press urged a pooling of Western brains and know-how to meet the Soviet challenge. Italian newspapers took a similar stand...