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...have made a career of emergency-type, government-to-government foreign aid. Not only does the new program pose a sharp threat to the perpetuation of much of foreign aid in its present form; it calls for a completely new approach. Instead of handing over foreign-aid funds in lump sums to foreign governments to pass out as they wish, it now also becomes necessary to find worthy loan possibilities among private businessmen unable to get credit in their own countries or from U.S. banks. As a starter, the loan fund has $300 million available for this year for loans...
...this dusty quarrel lies one of the West's few chances to make an imaginative advance in Eastern Europe. The 4,422,000 Germans who migrated from the eastern territories were once a combative, vengeful lump in West Germany; now they have been absorbed in the general prosperity and are no longer a hindrance to Germany's diplomatic maneuvering. High-placed German Christian Democrats, once the election is past, hope to take the diplomatic and economic offensive in Eastern Europe. Their best bet is to establish friendly ties with Poland, and their best means is to abandon some...
...stock on the open market. But they are not likely to ask Du Pont to dump the entire 64 million shares all at once-something that would not only disrupt the market but also cost Du Pont a $600 million to $700 million capital-gains tax (25%) in one lump. To ease the pinch, the Justice Department favors a more moderate plan, under which Du Pont's stock in G.M. would go into a temporary, nonvoting trust, which in turn would sell it off gradually over a number of years. Such a course would not only satisfy the Government...
...charges: "I only met old Muss once, and our conversation pleased neither him nor me. I talked [over the radio] about Roosevelt's follies, but I never said anything against my conscience as an American." On the world mess: "What the politicians have given us is an atrocious lump of sugar, the U.N. building." On writers: T. S. Eliot "betrayed poetry. In America, well, Papa Hemingway knows how to write, but he's dishonest." Said Papa to Il Tempo: "Pound is a great poet, and I proclaim it proudly. He's been punished enough, no matter what...
This innocuous formula evokes the amateurish fun of a party at the local dancing class. Critics who do not like it can only lump it with the corny appeal of ABC's Bandleader Lawrence Welk. Yet for the last three summers, the Murrays have won a bigger share of the TV audience than the winter shows they replaced, and last fortnight they out-Trendexed (by 11.6 to 7.8) Bandleader Welk himself, one of TV's best drawing cards...