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...general has to capture a hill, it is better to take it in one go rather than attack three or four times. You lose fewer men that way." Thus, last week, International Monetary Fund Director Per Jacobsson explained the fund's $1.3 billion loan to Britain to prop the Suez-battered pound. Instead of help in drib lets, Britain asked for and got the largest loan permissible under the fund's rules...
...happen to their economy if some adverse development-widespread utilization of atomic energy, perhaps, or big new oil finds in other countries-rubbed the bloom off the boom. Industrial growth based on abundant iron ore and the huge hydroelectric potential of the Caroni promises to put a second powerful prop under the economy, and make Venezuela's future more secure...
...There is one way we could fix that prop," says co-pilot Joe, who is on his first regular fight since graduating from pilot school...
What happened to the missing millions? New York banks and exporters put a big part of the blame on unreported government spending abroad. In particular, the pampered armed forces, Rojas Pinilla's main prop, are buying heavily, both of military hardware and of such luxuries as canned beer and TV sets, to be sold cheaply to soldiers...
Most of the weight in the scrum will be provided by newcomers Tony Markella and Bob Shane, the two locks, ex-Williams rugger Bob Huff at prop, and Eighthman Terry Turner, starting his fourth season for the Crimson...