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...Roman phrase, 'it has no smell,' " i.e., it is not tainted with any ideology beyond the expectation of profit. Said Nixon: "It is not unreasonable to set as our goal doubling or tripling American investment abroad in the next ten years." To supplement the outflow of U.S. capital (current rate: $4 billion yearly), Nixon urged...
...outflow from the pond to the Charles River was bridged yesterday to make it easier for conservationists to study the area, first brought to public attention by Bernard DeVoto '18 in an article in Harper's Magazine. The fence, extending across the dirt road which runs the length of the rectangular area, will keep out potential rubbish-dumpers and motorists...
...directly to stimulate local economies and generate new capital. Businessmen estimate that $1 in private capital does as much work as $3 in Government aid. U.S. firms now operate or make investments in more than 50 foreign countries, have annual foreign sales (including exports) of nearly $50 billion. The outflow of private direct investment reached $1.6 billion last year, more than double the 1955 figure, and U.S. investment in foreign stocks and bonds totaled another $1.2 billion. Private enterprise has invested $30 billion abroad to date, not including profits that firms plow back abroad each year...
United nations action in Korea is the most striking current example of the natural outflow of ideas explored by Wilson years ago, he continued. The former President found that to carry weight in international affairs you needed power as well as ideals and good intentions...
...like Tommy Manville and foolish young pimps like Minot Jelke; where 22-year-old boys slip,cyanide into their parents' champagne; where middle-aged mothers and grandmothers moon like adolescents over a toothy piano player; in a land where sex has become so naughty-fied that its outflow has been redirected to the channel of physical violence; where nice girls are taught early that it is legal to tease but evil to please . . . it might be more discreet to observe a mum respect for the pragmatic, clearheaded and honest Swedes. It might also be revealing to compare their...