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...Alliance's basic premise is one of matching funds: that is, Alliance money will supplement government and private capital for approved projects. With real per capita income falling, the cost of living doubling yearly and the world's least stable currency, Brazil has trouble matching American allocations. But Goulart knows that the rest of the hemisphere does not share Brazil's problems. His condemnation of the Alliance before the assembled representatives of the Latin republics was calculated to secure greater recognition of Brazil as a hemispheric leader...
...Hearst chain with both hands. By sale or merger he dropped money-losing papers in Chicago, San Francisco, Pittsburgh, Detroit, Boston, Los Angeles and Milwaukee; he also sold Hearst's International News Service to United Press. Earlier this year, he put to death Hearst's unprofitable Sunday supplement, the American Weekly. "Personally," said Berlin, "I would sell anything but the wife and children if the proper price were offered...
...expert on Eastern religions, holds that the drug-induced visions are simply one of many kinds of preternatural experience, and are qualitatively different from the ecstasies granted mystics. Presbyterian Theodore Gill, president of San Francisco Theological Seminary, wonders whether the drug experience might be a rival rather than a supplement to what conventional religion offers. Says he: "The drugs make an end run around Christ and go straight to the Holy Spirit." Clerics also charge that LSD zealots have become a clique of modern gnostics concerned only with furthering their private search for what they call "inner freedom...
...addition to regular classes, the church will also provide a study hall for children who do not have a quiet place to work at home. Although most pupils in the program need special help to catch up, a few are advanced students who want to supplement their regular school studies...
Santawirja got into the tart trade in 1961 when Indonesia's President Sukarno showed up in Copenhagen on an unofficial visit. Amiably, he rounded up some girls for the visiting entourage. So successful was the venture that he decided to supplement his entertainment allowance by running a fulltime poule hall. He teamed up with a Danish national, assembled a stable of 20 women, took a 20% commission from their $50- to $100-a-night earnings. When police sought to question him, he simply claimed diplomatic immunity...