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Cleveland Plain Dealer: The Ford agreement is the camel's nose under the tent. No one can doubt that the camel will work its way into the tent. Whether in fact the principle it has established produces the benefits anticipated, or starts the American economy on the road to stagnation depends in large part on the resilience of industry and its ability to react to new conditions...
Hale and a friend, Sergeant Stephen Hempstead, went to Norwalk, Conn. "Capt. Hale had changed his uniform for a plain suit of citizen's brown clothes," the sergeant recalled later, "with a round broad-brimmed hat; assuming the character of a Dutch schoolmaster." Before they parted company, Hale left all his valuables and papers, except for his Yale diploma (which he needed to establish his disguise) with the sergeant. Then a friendly sea captain ferried him across Long Island Sound to Huntington, and left...
Although no formal agenda for the talks has been set, the subject matter is plain for all to see. Russia wants Japan to declare itself neutralist, and has in its power, if it wishes, the ability to pay the Japanese a formidable price, to wit: return of Southern Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands; entry into the U.N.; return of 10,000 Japanese P.W.s and "war criminals"; trade and fishing concessions in Siberian waters. Some or all of these inducements, plus the "normalized relations" promised to the Japanese electorate by Premier Ichiro Hatoyama last February, might bring the neutralist pledge...
Last week's 2O-year, 4¾% World Bank loan (in which the Bank of America has a $5,000,000 share) will finance a $20 million irrigation project to triple the annual value of the Catania Plain's agricultural production by 1967 and create 10,000 new farm jobs in the immediate area. Another $30 million will build eight power projects to increase southern Italy's electric generating capacity by one-sixth; the remaining $20 million will help private investors finance seven new factories (fertilizer, fruit processing, cement, chemicals and medicines, pulp and paper, woolens). Said...
...first snorkeled in Britain about 20 years ago, looking like a jolly parlor game for rainy nights. "Adapted" for U.S. consumption by Editor Victor Rosen, the book still has an air of semi-solemn fun-with-Freud and what-every-Jung-man-should-know. Moreover, its prose is so plain that a roomful of safecrackers and their molls might well while away the hours before the gelignite goes up by browsing through the work. Its most startling feature is a questionnaire jig-sawed by Authors William Gerhardi (holder of the Czarist Order of St. Stanislav) and Prince Leopold Loewenstein...