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Chief planner of the cultural export drive is the International Exchange Program of ANTA (American National Theater and Academy), a privately financed, nonprofit organization, which has been sending American artists abroad with its own funds since the late 1940s. Last August, Congress appropriated $5,000,000 for U.S. participation in foreign-trade fairs and cultural events, asked ANTA to be its contractor for talent, and set aside $2,250,000 for it to get the program rolling. ANTA utilizes panels of top critics to select its export talent (mostly big-name, to attract attention), depends on professional managers to supervise...
...everything-yet you say that you don't believe what you don't feel, see and hear!" His audiences are large, and his "love offerings" average more than $3,000 a month, all of which goes into his Missionary Communication Service, a nonprofit foundation to provide electronic equipment to missionaries around the world. Vaus, his wife Alice and three children live on $400 a month. Missionary Communication Service stands to profit by the movie version of Jim's life. Except for an inspirational ending, it is an orthodox crime thriller, complete "with gunplay and side-mouthed snarls...
...lane thruway from the Dallas area to Houston, at a cost of $140 million. At the same time the Sam Houston Toll Road Corp. will start building the first leg (Dallas-Waco, 83 miles) of its $140 million. 246-mile Dallas-San Antonio Thruway. The two corporations, franchised as nonprofit public utilities by the Texas legislature, will float 40-year bonds at 4-5%, pay all costs of construction and operation, including salaries for the promoter-operators. When the bonds are paid off, the turnpikes will become state property...
ACTION (The American Council to Improve Our Neighborhoods) will soon launch a nationwide campaign to clean out slums. The new, nonprofit organization, formed by groups representing some 100 million people, estimates that of 50 million U.S. homes 35 million need repairs, while another 8,000,000 are rundown areas that can be classed as slums...
...electrically operated metal hand for victims of paralysis and for amputees with some types of artificial hands has been invented by Charles V. Giaimo, vice president of Lionel Corp. (toy trains). Manufactured on a nonprofit basis by Lionel, the glovelike device fits snugly over the thumb and forefinger. Two powerdriven cables move the paralyzed fingers; the cables in turn are controlled by a pushbutton that can be worked by the other hand, by blowing through a tube or by pressure under the armpit. The metal hand has already enabled handicapped individuals to write, use the telephone and eating utensils, brush...