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...make the Alliance for Progress more than a one-way street for American aid, its 20 members appointed a panel of nine Latin American economists to study the best manner of achieving mutual interdependent development. Trouble was that the "nine wise men" lacked any real power; so a more influential Inter-American Committee (CIAP) was created. Last March in Buenos Aires, the Alliance voted to trim the nine wise men to five, and put them under CIAP as a technical committee. Last week the whole nine-man panel resigned, firing broadsides at the Alliance as they went...
...Roadster under the name Excalibur SSK, has added a four-seat Mercedes Phaeton. Price: around $7,500. The classic American Cord has returned as a scaled-down convertible (four-fifths original size) that, like its predecessor, comes with front-wheel drive. Included in the $5,950 price: a one-way plane ticket to the factory in Tulsa, Okla., where the customer picks...
...property behind? Where in Eastern Europe may they fill out application blanks for immigrant visas? Doesn't TIME know that last year West European governments v/ere unable to arrange for employment of unemployed Polish workmen because no one would guarantee that the Poles would return to Poland? Doesn't the fact that millions of people may not buy one-way tickets arouse indignation...
What we found wrong with a lot of early Peace Corps training, based on reports from returned Volunteers, was that it contained "too many lectures, too much one-way instruction and too little direct experience...
...Beirut, police stand blithely by while taxis careen up one-way streets the wrong way, honking every time they pass a sign reading "Klaxon Interdit." Smuggling of everything from hashish to hand grenades proceeds under the benign eye of the customs inspector, and buying a judge's opinion is sometimes as easy as buying a crate of Lebanese apples. When mild, soft-spoken Charles Helou, 52, was elected President of Lebanon by its Parliament in 1964, everyone expected him merely to preside over this happy chaos, because, as one Beirut parliamentarian puts it, "Corruption is the Lebanese way...