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...against the greatest team of post-war baseball, the Indians with 111 victories in a 154-game season, and a pitching staff of Lemon, Wynn, Garcia and an aging but able Bob Feller. I bet every cent I won (about two bucks) at long odds on the hometown boys, and the Giants win in 4 as Dusty Rhodes emerges from the bench into ephermeral glory. I end up with about 12 bucks and considered myself the richest kid in town...
WHEN SECRETARY OF STATE George C. Marshall announced his monumental plan for post-war European recovery at Harvard's 1947 commencement, he was taking a risk. He gambled that his appeal to America's enlightened self-interest would overcome the reluctance of a public whose sentiments were increasingly averse to economic commitments abroad. Today, 40 years later, West German President Richard von Weizsacker will take his place on the steps of Memorial Church to address the Class of 1987. His presence reflects the enduring success of Marshall's plan...
...diplomat that has had powerful implications on the shape of international relations until the present day. It is appropriate then that the speaker at today's Commencement, which celebrates the 40th anniversary of that pronouncement, be the leader of West Germany--one of the nations most aided by America post-War altruism as embodied in the Marshall Plan...
Scholars say that post-war Europe was a special case, far different from Third World regions which are the commonly targeted areas for modern versions of Marshall's vision. To Hoffman the plan was aimed at rebuilding the West, "not laying the ground work for social and economic justice" in Third World nations...
...foreign policy experts also say that the tremendous financial undertaking would never materialize in the present era. "In the immediate post-war period we were able to come forward with a major effort and spend 3 percent of our Gross National Product for the Marshall Plan. Today we can't get one half of one percent for such purposes," says Rusk...