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...nearly thirteen million South Africans, eleven million are non-European. The two million minority, composed mainly of Afrikaners (of Dutch descent) have historically feared the dissolution of their culture in South Africa's non-European solvent. In recent years the program of "apartheid" imposed by the Government has attempted to keep the blacks "separate but equal." Strijdom, disliking the connotations of the term "apartheid," uses the phrase "separate development." But his policies have underscored separateness rather than development...
...problems of money, as the poor, we always had with us. The Student Council appeared to be the only solvent body around, with a revenue of over $5,000. The University, representing the opposite extreme, announced that it needed roughly $100 million, for which purpose it began a campaign called "A Program for Harvard College," which involves sacrificial gifts from alumni. Radcliffe promptly followed suit by announcing its need for ten million, and even M.I.T. admitted to being on the verge of bankruptcy...
Selling fine coffee to the world, Colombia takes in a golden torrent of foreign exchange-$300 million in the first eight months of this year. As a result, Colombia should be solvent, sound and stable. Instead, after two years of political mismanagement of its income, Colombia is setting off economic alarm bells both at home and abroad. It owes the tradesmen of the world around $345 million, and has become the No. 1 collection headache for U.S. exporters. The debt has sapped the nation's credit, its currency and its reserves. "The Colombian economy," said a U.S. Government official...
...taxes simply try to get away with listing all bets at 10% of their actual figure, i.e., a $1,000 wager goes into the ledger as $100. The tax then dwindles to a modest 1%. As long as he fools the Feds, the bookmaker has a chance of staying solvent...
...Finnegan: the meetings were "little short of sensational"). At Manhattan's Ambassador Hotel, where 250 of the best-heeled Democrats turned out to pledge $350,000 to the fund, the candidate was in fine fettle ("I'm delighted to see a group so distinguished-and so solvent"). In Harrisburg, Pa. he laced his arms around the waists of a couple of "farmerette" Stevenson supporters, joshed away as photographers popped their bulbs ("These aren't cowgirls. These are my girls . . . I think we ought to practice coming in here every night"). He showed perhaps a more profitable political...