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Both sides agreed last spring to let the Sudanese choose for themselves. It was easier said than done. For some months, a seven-man electoral commission, supervised by an Indian chairman and including one American, labored to parcel out 97 crude constituencies, establish direct voting procedures -for "sophisticated tribes" and indirect methods for the primitives. The commission arranged for the election, in three stages, of a 97-man House of Representatives and a 50-man Senate, 20 of whose members will be nominees of the British Governor General. Sudan's first Parliament will decide the nation's future...
...accept. Their less socially desirable classmen also have a problem. Under the 100 per cent agreement, started in 1950, every man receives at least one bid, but it may be from a club that does not interest him at all. After the clubs have bid the choice candidates, they parcel out the remainder without much regard to the individual's preference...
Help for North Korea? Americans are rightly famous, and beloved, for their generosity; but there was no genuine or Christian charity in Mr. Dulles' discriminatory promise of lavish material help for the rehabilitation of South Korea and not of North Korea. The American food parcel can be as true a symbol of Christian love as the cup of cold water; but the political, and even electoral, strings attached to such aid in Asia, in Italy, and in Berlin have robbed the gift of its virtue and induced either sycophancy or cynicism in those who receive it. The Good Samaritan...
...courses" in management problems given by leading American colleges and the American Management Association, and the attendance is constantly growing. When the executives return to their desks, they keep learning in periodic conferences, where their suggested solutions to company problems often pay off. For example, at such conferences United Parcel Service worked out a method to cut time wasted in extra deliveries by as much as 23%. Whether or not such programs produce enough good executives, they are valuable for another reason. They increase everybody's efficiency, if only because they force everyone to discover what the entire team...
...hydroelectric scheme for Teheran, completion of the much-needed Teheran-Tabriz railroad, low-cost workers' housing. He told Zahedi and Finance Minister Ali Amini to speed the return of the royal family estates, taken by Mohammed Mossadegh four months ago to thwart the Shah's plans to parcel out the land to landless peasants. Under the Shah's scheme, the peasants will make a small payment for the land, work it with the help of loans financed by the Shah...