Word: papers
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Black Prince. Part of Libya's touchiness grows out of its realization that it could not survive six months if the U.S. and Britain (which has given Libya $64 million) withdrew their support. Libya's meager exports of esparto grass (for paper currency), olive oil, nuts and camels pay for only a fraction of its imports, and U.S. grants total more than half Libya's annual budget. Rumors rife in Libya of local mismanagement of allied funds are small encouragement to pull out U.S. technicians and let the Libyans spend away on their own. Most...
...above constitutes what remains of the notes for a paper to be delivered to a regional convention of the American Society of Social Scientists. The handwritten notes, brought in to us by a Summer School student, were dropped in the Emerson Hall corridor between classes on Monday and were badly mutilated under foot. We are therefore unable to identify the author; but we do know he is an assistant professor, for in the torn, smudged corner of the title page one can still make out the three letters...
Returning to Mexico, young Bob White took up work on the family paper and two hobbies: sports cars (he owns a Jag) and joining. His penchant for joining organizations got him widely known in the newspaper world, helps explain how the editor of the Mexico Ledger moved in one giant stride to become president and editor of the New York Herald Tribune. Board chairman and past president of the Inland Daily Press Association. Bob White is also a director of the American Newspaper Publishers Association, chairman of the Associated Press nominating committee, a member of the National Conference of Editorial...
...turn the Herald Tribune into a better newspaper or merely into a G.O.P. mouthpiece. Whitney's answer was firm: he wanted a good newspaper. On that basis, Whitney and White were agreed. Says Whitney: "It happens that Mr. White is a Democrat, while I am a Republican. The paper will continue its policy of complete objectivity in its news columns and of independent Republicanism on its editorial page...
...Though Kerekes is first a teacher ("Because I can that way make contact with youth"), he has stayed close to the Washington pulse, advised congressional committees on Hungary. In 1956 he founded Georgetown's Ethnic Institute, will continue as director in retirement, trying to preserve, on paper at least, the rich native cultures of all peoples in the world "who are in danger of being obliterated...