Word: panels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
...Some panel members charged that the Alliance was drifting back toward bilateral "program" aid, which helps a country balance its budget or pay for imports. Though such aid ostensibly frees a nation's own resources for development projects, it may, in the end, develop nothing more than big, private bank accounts. Washington experts flatly denied such policy shifts, writing off the charges as an attempt by the panel to salve its injured pride. "Nine wise men?" snapped one Washington hand. "Ridiculous. Call them nine wise guys...
...teen-age marrieds present on the panel tended to agree that escape into early marriage is risky at best. One part-time secretary who was born illegitimate herself confessed she had yearned for security. A pretty cocktail waitress who was wed at 17 said, "I was marrying to get out of home." Bitterest of all was a girl who married at 17, is now in the process of getting divorced. "My parents trusted me too much," she said. "In a way, it's too bad giving kids too much time for things they're not ready...
...second speech at Harvard came at the end of '64 when Malcolm X spoke on a panel with Martin L. Kilson and James Q. Wilson. "This was his muck-raker phase when he had just broken with the Black Muslims and was critical of everyone. Three months later, after another trip to Africa, Malcolm X returned to the Law School Forum to give a very introspective, self-critical speech...
...panel truck and an automobile collided at Memorial Drive and Western Avenue, a block east of the married students' dorms, at 3 p.m. The impact of the collision flipped the Oldsmobile through a green iron fence and into ten feet of the Charles...