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Disgusted at the ever-expanding Lima slums and impatient for swifter reforms, Belaúnde finally decided to form his own political party a few months before the 1956 presidential elections. He named it Accion Popular, a catch phrase suggesting that the best help is selfhelp. No one would help the peasants unless they awoke from their coca-chewing lethargy and helped themselves-in the same cooperative, community spirit of their Inca forefathers. Working together, they could build roads and schools and hospitals -Belaúnde would see that they got the tools. "This was the philosophical idea," he says...
...killed when an electric mine was detonated under their Jeep; an Army major shot dead by guerrillas in broad daylight in a village ten miles from Saigon; another major caught by machine-gun fire that raked his Vietnamese Ranger battalion. The roll of American dead would grow at a swifter pace as reinforcements arrived. Said a senior U.S. official in Saigon dryly: "When you put more people in a zone traversed by enemy bullets, your casualties are going to increase...
...rubber-tired, lightweight subway cars run on concrete or wide steel tracks and provide a swifter, far quieter and more cushioned ride for passengers. The friction of the tires allows quicker stops and starts so that trains can keep to faster schedules; on some runs the Métro figures that the extra speed will give it the capacity of five trains for the price of four. The trains are designed so that on existing subway systems they can share the right of way with older trains by straddling the steel rails on their own special track. But Transaco feels...
...Boston's Norman Krim. who swapped a Raytheon vice-presidency for the presidency of a discount house called Radio Shack: "You can move fast in a small outfit, but in a big company you have to wait for six or eight people up ahead of you." Promotions are swifter in small companies because competition is weaker; ideas also move to the top faster because fewer committees stand...
Pessimism was voiced over British entry into the Common Market; as bargaining resumed in Brussels, Negotiator Ted Heath made new demands, including a swifter conference schedule, which the six were in no mood to grant. De Gaulle did not seem any more cordial than before, and Adenauer remarked ironically that they were not exactly exchanging "declarations of love" at Brussels. Yet the relentless logic of profit as well as progress made it virtually certain that Britain will enter...