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...billion in loan funds over the next five years. This would enable it to make long-term aid commitments instead of coming to Congress each year to get programs approved. "Uneven and undependable short-term financing has weakened the incentive for the long-term planning and self-help by the recipient nations that are essential to serious economic development...
Freudian man, Marxian man, organization man, lifeman, gamesman and grey-flannel-suit man-what were they compared to the S-Man? Piglets to a python. In the diabolically clever guise of a self-help manual, The S-Man aims a good Swiftian kick at the cult and cultists of success. A British export, the book lacks the clubby good humor of Parkinson and Potter, substitutes instead the wittily barbed aphorisms of the success man's ascent ("New friends are best friends"). Cocktail party Platos will find a host of new S-Man concepts, including the Inhibition Barrier...
...Latin Americans have as keen an ear as anyone else for a catchy slogan. Kennedy gave them one: "Progreso, Si! Tirania, No! [Progress, Yes! Tyranny, No!]." Time to Mobilize. Through both of Kennedy's messages ran the insistent theme that U.S. aid must be accompanied by self-help on the part of the Latin Americans. Only they, he warned, "can mobilize their resources and modify their social patterns so that all and not just a privileged few share in the fruits of growth." Kennedy did not specify in detail all the shortcomings that call for reform. But on average...
...this week's White House reception for Latin American diplomats as one more place to stress his own favored slogan, "Alliance for Progress." To the President, the hemisphere's alliance must be a two-way street, with U.S. cash and technical assistance matched by Latin American self-help and selfdiscipline. Before him was an emergency request for $20 million to shore up Bolivia's chronically collapsing economy. Kennedy's response was to send a team of economic experts to Bolivia to determine exactly what the money might accomplish...
...Bible is the perfect nonbook, an anthology of self-help and inspirational works, entirely ghostwritten...