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...future, Wilson's first worry is money. In a year-and-a-half, when the present Ford Foundation grant runs out, "there may be no Joint Center." While the Ford money is only about one-fourth of the budget, it is the Center's only unrestricted money. Without it, Wilson feels, "we would be faced with the necessity of hustling contracts, and we would begin to dance to the piper's tune...
...size of Texas, 26 million Brazilians live in misery, almost 80% of them illiterate, disease and hunger holding the average life span to an appalling 35 years. Most nordestinos wring a grudging subsistence from the land, which is alternately scorched by drought and ravaged by flood and yields one-fourth as much corn, one-fifth as much cotton as the average acre of U.S. farmland. "Our agriculture," said Ceará State Governor Virgílio Távora, "is just a bit more advanced than that of the Pharaohs...
...where voter-qualification tests were required, it now affects only seven Southern states-Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, Louisiana, Virginia, South Carolina, and 34 counties in North Carolina. Outside the net are such states as Lyndon Johnson's Texas, Florida, Tennessee and Arkansas, which impose no tests-but which harbor one-fourth of the South's unregistered Negroes. Civil rights leaders charge that "pockets of discrimination" in those states use subtler methods, such as job reprisals, to keep Negroes away from the ballot...
...turns out only 15 cars a day due to material shortages. The Helwan iron and steel complex produces rails that were turned down as inferior by Egyptian national railways and were finally accepted only on Nasser's insistence. At year's end Nasser was forced to sell one-fourth of his $138 million gold reserves to pay off short-term obligations and maintain the nation's credit standing...
...About one-fourth of South Caroli na's 800 Methodist churches are withholding contributions to an Interdenominational Cooperation Fund because a fraction of the money goes to the National Council. Recently the Knoxville presbytery formally resolved that the parent Presbyterian Church in the U.S. (the Southern Presbyterians) should withdraw from membership in the council, a motion that may well be seconded by a dozen more presbyteries at this year's General Assembly. Episcopalians in Southern California who belong to the archconservative Society of St. Athanasius have made a number of motions at church financecommittee meetings to withhold funds...