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...launched the land reform program that he had signed into law on Jan. 15. Under the law, worked out by idealistic Agriculture Minister Hasan Arsanjani (who insists on serving without salary), a landlord may be forced to sell most of his holdings, is compensated by the government over a ten-year period. The Shah, who in the last decade has distributed to peasants more than half of his own 1,500,000 acres, is one of the few Iranian landlords with any liking for reform. Most cling tenaciously to the feudal system, which has given big landowners control of three...
...Bureau International des Expositions governs the participation of 30 nations in world's fairs, has refused to recognize the 1964 fair. According to B.I.E. ground rules, no nation may participate in more than one fair in a single country within a ten-year period. B.I.E.'s blessing has already been bestowed upon Seattle's Century 21 Exposition, which opens in April, a ruling that automatically leaves New York without official representation from European governments. But Grover Whalen, in 1939, faced limited B.I.E. participation, still ended up with some handsome European pavilions. Says Moses...
Double the Income. Prime Minister Hayato Ikeda's government has proposed a ten-year plan to provide many of the needed changes. But to divert the voters' attention from Japan's current political upheavals, Ikeda publicly laid greatest stress on the plan's goal of nearly doubling Japan's per capita income...
...faculty salaries by 90%, tripled endowment to $25 million. The school's operating budget is up threefold, its science spending tenfold. On completion, the new $8,000,000 library will house 2,000,000 books, five times more than the present library. All this is part of a ten-year (deadline: 1968) $66 million "Program for Excellence...
...ten-year postwar delay in getting new hospitals started is largely due to NHS red tape. A London surgeon complains: "When you plan a hospital, you figure two years for blueprinting, two years for planning, two years for getting it through this and that committee, and three years for the Ministry of Health and the Treasury. You start to build in ten years...