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...Alexander Korda, the British movie mogul, signed her to a seven-year, nonexclusive contract. The late great Albert Basserman dragged her off on a tour of Europe to play Gretchen to his Faust. By 1950 she was in a flood tide of some of the weepiest (and most popular) German pictures ever made. This was her Seelchenperiode as a leidender Engel (suffering angel), the shopgirl's ideal, when the Schell smile was as famous in Germany as the Monroe walkaway was in the U.S. Maria and Dieter Borsche, with whom she was starred in Es Kommt Ein Tag, were...
IRAN, whose two-year-old development program looks ultimately to a wholly free economy. Abol Hassan Ebtehaj, director of Iran's Seven-Year Plan Organization, said that his country will spend $1.1 billion in oil revenues to build "basic 'facilities which will create the climate necessary to stimulate private enterprise. Our philosophy is to develop and operate industry only when private capital is unable or unwilling to do so." While emphasizing that foreign capital is essential to the.program, Ebtehaj said that the country's greatest present need is for consultants, industrial managers, technicians. "Our need...
...there is one rhythm Russia's 200 millions are well used to, it is the succession of five-year plans. Last week Radio Moscow broke the rhythm by announcing the abrupt scrapping of the current five-year plan (1956-60) before it had even reached the halfway mark. In its stead there is to be a seven-year plan running from 1959-65. Radio Moscow tried its best to make this sound like progress: "Large new deposits of various raw materials and sources of power have been discovered in recent years," and thus "there are possibilities for creating...
...charged by the Arkansas constitution with keeping law and order in Little Rock: Mayor Woodrow Wilson Mann."There was no indication of unrest whatever," says Mann. "We had no reason to believe there would be violence." For one thing, Little Rock had worked out for itself a seven-year integration plan, carefully picking and choosing among the Negro students most likely to do well, so as to minimize the possibility of trouble in a city with better-than-average race relationships. Even so, to be on the safe side, Mann and his 175-man police force had made carefully detailed...
...Shaggy Dog. Looking toward school integration, the Little Rock school board and Superintendent of Schools Virgil Blossom had set up a gradual, carefully selective, seven-year plan specifically aimed at "the least amount of integration spread over the longest period of time." As recently as last April, two new school-board members were overwhelmingly elected with their support of the integration plan as the chief issue. The Little Rock school board had selected the nine Negro children carefully, considering intelligence, achievement, conduct, health -even the shade of their skins...