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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spokesman explained last night that the letter's main function was to get PBH volunteers thinking about the anti-war referendum. Any volunteers who decide to campaign may be expected to do this in addition to their regular duties, he said...
Encouraging Atmosphere. Indonesia's main problems are economic, and in that area Suharto has begun to make a major impact. He has assembled the best men available to doctor the economy and given them freedom to act. They have managed to cut inflation, for example, from 600% in 1965 to 60% this year. Suharto is particularly anxious to open the way for more private foreign investment, as well as to create a climate that will encourage other nations to grant loans. Japan's Premier Eisaku Sato, the highest ranking official visitor to Djakarta since Sukarno's downfall...
...church a large measure of criticism, but its activities are strongly backed by Methodist Bishop Donald Tippett, a member of the foundation's board, and by community leaders such as Willie Brown, San Francisco's first Negro representative in the California state assembly. Durham's main defense of Glide's missionary ways is that they work, and that the church is loved and respected by thousands of deviates and dropouts who otherwise have nothing but contempt for organized religion. "God says 'yes' to man," he says. "So we want to help the disenfranchised...
...billion, and profit to be divided on that income between partners, brokers and salesmen should reach $675 million, compared with $600 million in 1966. Moreover, with stock trading hitting a furious pace, SEC analysts expect a sharp rebound in the industry's aftertax profits on its main business of securities trading, which slipped from 5.8% in 1965 to 5.7% last year, according to an N.Y.S.E. survey. "Brokers tell us they're making a great deal of money," says one SEC official...
...cities as grids. But it also reminds him that "chessboard Babylon was so depressing for Nebuchadnezzar's highland wife that he had to build her an artificial knobbly mountain-the famous 'Hanging Gardens.' " Noting that Brasilia's TV tower dominates the city while the main body of the cathedral is subterranean, Toynbee observes that "technology is the dominant element in present-day life; religion is retreating to the catacombs again...