Word: schemes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Istanbul Democratic leaders were responsible for financial hanky-panky while expropriating choice Istanbul real estate under a Menderes scheme to modernize the ancient city. Faithful Democratic Party supporters were handsomely compensated for their expropriated properties, while Republicans were shortchanged. Still to be proved: that Menderes was personally culpable...
...implies, understanding is the first step in shaping an intelligent response. Mrs. Dean deals with the entire "emerging," underdeveloped area, but not before considering the peculiar conditions and difficulties of five areas and eighteen individual countries. What is most impressive Builders of Emerging Nations is its scheme of organization: Mrs. Dean approaches the emerging nations through their leaders, offering first a brief summary of the political social and economic peculiarities of each of five areas, (Russia and Yugoslavia, the Middle East, Asia, Africa. Latin America) and then sketches of the life and thought of eighteen outstanding statesmen. She concludes with...
...what, it might be asked, do businessmen have to do with the intellectuals? The function of a businessman, in Miss Rand's scheme of existence, is to distribute to the general public the technical advances discovered in the scientist's laboratory. In an analagous manner, the intellectual must keep before the people the latest philosophic ideas on human existence. Businessmen and intellectuals then, are middlemen in the ideal free-enterprise system...
Philip Hofer, curator of printing and graphic arts at the Harvard College Library, has devoted the energies of a lifetime to making this exhibit possible. His contributions form a considerable portion of the collection, and you may thank him, as director of the exhibit, for the well-spaced, esthetic scheme of display employed...
Perhaps it is silly to try to understand the complex and sophisticated problems which surround the management of Harvard grounds and buildings. The latest ingenious scheme emerged last week in the context of the age-old struggle between pigeons and buildings...