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...Alliance--in which Kubitschek evidently places much confidence--he describes as "not just stop-gap assistance." One of his chief hopes is that it can stabilize commodity and raw material prices in South America...
...political prominence in a time of no great domestic crisis. In this sense, Romney's emergence as a national figure has come less because it answers a real national need than because the internal state of American politics renders it very opportune. Republican leaders are running their party on "stop-gap" measures. As was pointed out in a special study of the Republican Party published last week, the party is in complete organizational disorder, from the understaffed precinct offices to the ideological chaos at the top. In effect, Romney's most immediate appeal is not to the people...
...read Stookey's article, however, or Miss Gale's, or Krupnick's, you might begin to feel that the University can, in time, surmount these problems. For Stookey's article indicates the sort of long-range planning that can supplant the stop-gap measures popular at present; Krupnick's proposes a change in the administration of courses that could provide the undergraduate with greater insight into (and interest in) the process of education; and Miss Gale's shows that an administration can go a long way toward creating the essential "atmosphere of expectation...
According to Henry, currently on a year's leave of absence from his post as Director of Admissions, the program was established last year as a stop-gap measure to assist in the education of African students while educational facilities are created in their native lands...
Regional Redevelopment. Illinois Senator Paul Douglas, another professional economist, unfurled a new plan drawn up by his Kennedy-appointed task force for aid to depressed areas. Douglas figures that the Government has the responsibility not simply to give stop-gap aid, but to permanently revitalize the nation's 20-odd major depressed areas and dozens of smaller ones, peopled by some 15 million Americans, by attracting new industry and changing the historic economic bases of the areas. Besides proposing a $389.5 million depressed-areas bill and a plan for doubling the amount of surplus food distributed to depressed areas...