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...South Korea's "economic miracle" was stoked by massive U.S. aid. Since the armistice, the U.S. has poured $4.5 billion of direct nonmilitary aid into the country, plus hundreds of millions of dollars generated by the 43,000 American forces stationed there. Just as Japan reaped the economic spin-off from the Korean War, so South Korea found itself profiting from the war in Viet Nam, where it stationed 30,000 marines and received at least $150 million annually in U.S. payments for its troops...
More than half of the $25 million used to build Emory's hospitals was donated by an anonymous private foundation. Peebles speculated that this was probably the Chandler Foundation, a spin-off of the Coca-Cola Corporation which has its corporate headquarters in Atlanta...
...irolic twist, the court must also decide a spin-off of the last question. Can Mr. L. be tried for the murder of 19-year-old Marilyn Kraai, the crime for which he was originally committed, now that he has obtained his release...
There were two bright spots last night in this otherwise dim prospect. One was a spin-off from Busby Berkeley's elaborate choreography, done with spinning transparent umbrellas, none the worse for having been lifted from last Fall's Exproduction of Dames At Sea. The other (and the only satire with any bite) is a runaway mix of The King and I and Chinese Revolutionary Opera called "The People's Opera Glorifying Revolutionary Heroes One-Eyed Jack and Toronto." With Red Flags and posters of Mao, it plays the stereotypes to the hilt, and with saving grace, perceptibly manages...
...pictures of the earth every day; each shot covers a 115-by-115-mile square. Unlike U.S. and Soviet spy satellites, which are on the lookout for military sites, the mission of NASA's first Earth Resources Technology Satellite (ERTS-1) is purely scientific. A direct spin-off of the space agency's active new interest in its home planet, ERTS is now returning dramatically revealing views of the earth...