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...President's permission to cast a hard eye over next year's foreign-aid budget and audit the Pentagon's spending for overseas forces and bases. Last month Anderson gave U.S. policy a new dollar-saving twist: the U.S. announced that, with few exceptions, dollars lent in the future to underdeveloped nations by the Development Loan Fund must be spent in the U.S. (TIME...
...Republican Rockefeller a string of verbal hotfoots, then swiftly wrapping up Rocky's own point: the U.S. needs leadership to "tell the people the hard facts of existence that face us." All told, the deceptively boyish Kennedy drew ten rounds of applause in nine minutes, a rout which lent poignant irony to Rocky's smiling remark, made to a friend as he surveyed the influential crowd before dinner: "I'm just a sand-lot player...
...small depositors and designed to help people buy their own homes. Its motto: The Horn of Plenty. The horn was easily tapped by Jasper & Co. through Grunwald, who was also a lawyer representing State Building; he arranged for the Society to lend to Jasper on mortgages. All told, it lent Jasper $21.2 million of its currently estimated $40 million in assets, some $10.3 million without any security. To get around a law requiring that building societies list separately every mortgage over $14,000, Jasper and the Building Society set up a string of more than 451 phantom companies with such...
...janitor protests, and it is as if the ghosts of Anne Radcliffe, Emerson, and the James brothers collectively lent him eloquence. "These girls here, their parents have money to send them to college then they ought to have it to buy curtains. Here on Linnean Street, parading around so every Tom and Harry passing by can get his fill. They ought to do something about it. Maybe the people who run the place are the ones. How can a guy respect colleges when stuff like this goes on? It's no treat for me, you know. I mean...
...Fund quickly lent Britain $561.5 million. This, plus stern measures to cut spending, enabled Britain to stabilize its currency so successfully that it has al ready paid back $200 million of the loan...