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Secondly, in his summing up of the problems facing Pakistan, both ignorance and prejudice are evident. To take up only some of the points mentioned by him, Pakistan's poverty does not "far surpass India's." Per capita income in both countries is about the same. The problem of absentee land holdings was first tackled in the Eastern wing when the State Acquisition and Tenancy Act of 1950 abolished feudal "Zamindari" which was originally created by the British after their conquest of Bengal. In West Pakistan, a somewhat different system of landlordism has persisted, but plans to reform...
Income Up. Equally good recovery news was the fact that personal income in September rose to a seasonally adjusted rate of $357.5 billion from $356.1 billion in August. This third consecutive record-breaking month made certain that 1958 would surpass 1957. For the first nine months of 1958 personal income has run at the rate of $351.6 billion, v. a rate of only $347.5 billion in 1957. Wage and salary disbursements in September rose $40 million to a rate of $239.1 billion...
Commenting upon the recent granting of a Republican charter to the Harvard Eisenhower Club, Dawson said, "this proves the purpose of the Eisenhower Club is to surpass the HYRC as the voice of Republicanism at Harvard...
...sisters (nees Zeyen) as a real virtuoso, but Sister Anthony, before taking the veil, played for three seasons in the Los Angeles Philharmonic, one year in the 20th Century-Fox studio orchestra, and Sister Mark holds a Ph.D. from the Eastman School of Music. Few trios now performing can surpass their exquisitely unified ensemble playing. Tempi they keep brisk and tense. During the recording session, one of the three sisters said crisply: "Let's take it faster. We can't sound like three old women." They...
...took the looting of all Europe by Napoleon's armies to surpass such Bourbon largesse. "We will now have all that is beautiful in Italy except for a few objects in Turin and Naples," Napoleon boasted. The booty kept flowing in, including such masterpieces as Veronese's Marriage at Cana, largest canvas (22 ft. by 32 ft.) in the Louvre, and Mantegna's great Crucifixion. Added to the warehouses of art confiscated during the French Revolution (including Michelangelo's marble Slaves, found in the Due de Richelieu's town house), the foreign conquests made Napoleon...