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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quarter of the world's population. In that time $6 billion in foreign aid has been pledged to its member countries-nearly $5 billion of it from the U.S. About two-thirds of all the aid has gone to India. The original overall goals (17% more irrigated land, 10% more food produced, 67% more electricity generated have long since been attained, yet so vast is the area's increase in population (10 million annually) that living standards have risen only slightly...
...tour Russia (in 1956), and for its Russian-born or Russian-speaking musicians. During rehearsals, the Russians filed into the side balcony of Symphony Hall, leaned intently over the railing, and watched Conductor Charles Munch. Kabalevsky and Composer Aaron Copland (who rehearsed his own suite from The Tender Land) alternate on the podium...
...rugged Big Ten are cursed by having to play one another Saturday after Saturday. The resulting won-lost marks are often unimposing, but by mid-November the fires of Big Ten competition annually forge a flock of tough, tenacious teams that can meet any squad in the land on even terms. Last week thrice-beaten Michigan State overturned Northwestern, 15-10, and thrice-beaten Illinois did the same to Wisconsin, 9-6, to throw the Big Ten race into a three-way tie, prove again that the league plays the best-balanced, and on average, the best college football...
...stock holdings, Alleghany has 17% working control of the New York Central Railroad, plus 50% ownership of the Missouri Pacific Railroad. The Central also owns more than $500 million in Manhattan real estate, including the Park Lane, Commodore, Biltmore and Barclay hotels, plus several blocks of Park Avenue land. Biggest plum of all: Alleghany's 47.8% control of Investors Diversified Services, which manages five mutual funds whose combined assets total about $3 billion. This great Alleghany complex, says Sonnabend, "has been static since Robert Young died. It needs new vitality and dynamism...
...northwest coast of Australia is one of the most desolate spots on earth. The nearest city of any size is Perth (pop. 376,000), some 1,450 miles to the south; mosquitoes and crocodiles infest the mangrove swamps; 12-ft. sharks cruise the lonely bays. In that unfriendly land, at remote Kuri Bay, a syndicate of Australians, Americans and Japanese called Pearls Proprietary Ltd. is turning out a product that has the world's jewelers agog. The product: fabulous pearls as big across as a 25-cent piece, of gem quality so fine that a Manhattan jeweler recently sold...