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This weekend, the Jewish community at Harvard celebrated the union of Sufrin and Simon, the associate director of Hillel...
When Claire Sufrin opened the Sunday Styles section of the New York Times in March to search for familiar faces in the wedding announcements, she was surprised to see her own face within the pages. Her then-boyfriend Michael Simon had pasted a wedding announcement he had written in her copy as a proposal...
...luggage. It has been collected all around the world. Part is new, part old. Some pieces have Yale locks, others are held together with ropes. But it's all good enough for travel . . ." Though Spain has often been pictured as on the verge of bankruptcy and starvation, said Sufrin, it is more nearly self-sufficient than some other European nations (e.g., Britain and Belgium). If Spain were to lower slightly its already low standard of living, which Sufrin puts at $160 income a year per Spaniard, it could do without foreign aid and without international trade...
Spain's economic troubles, says Sufrin, lie in 1) bad distribution of resources and goods, low standards of maintenance, 2) state control purely for the sake of control, 3) a shortage of skilled workers, 4) poor agricultural organization and 5) inefficient general management. These ailments cannot be cured, he said, by indiscriminately handling out dollars (Spanish officials would like about $300 or $400 million). "Spain will never die of starvation, but she can die of indigestion if we give her more beef than she can chew...
...Deluge of Dollars." Even if, for military and political reasons, the U.S. decides to try a far-reaching rehabilitation of Spain, Sufrin is against any deluge of dollars. He recommends rehabilitation in three successive phases: existing equipment must be put to work at full capacity (it is now operating 20% below); then, there should be small investments in the form of raw materials; and finally, after these steps are taken, there can be larger investments. In the meantime, Spanish workers must be trained in new skills, and the country's power and transport system drastically improved...