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...cool and silent as Indian officials in the U.S. were vocally grateful. Proclaiming that the agreement would enable India to go ahead with its second five-year plan, Indian Minister to the U.S. Harishwar Dayal also pointed up the fact that this form of aid is a two-way street. Said he: "It helps you by taking care of some of your surpluses...
...Two-Way Exodus. In 1917, Henri Martin Barzun came to the U.S. on a diplomatic mission, but when the time came to go home he decided to stay. While America's lost generation looked for a spiritual home abroad, scores of French scholars and artists sought refuge in America from the wave of cynicism sweeping over Europe. After a stay in Britain, young Jacques arrived in the U.S. "in ridiculous short pants and ignorant of baseball." But he was ready to enter college at 15½. The college he chose was Columbia. "To anyone from Europe, Columbia...
...exceptional case of a deaf student whose answers were perfect in an oral examination on canon law, Dean Suñer recalls that months later he learned that the lad's ears were as excellent as the grade he got. His hearing aid was actually a chuleta, a two-way phone with a wire running from the student to the back of the large classroom, where an accomplice, armed with a canon-law textbook, dictated flawless responses directly into the examinee's ear. Said Dr. Pi y Suñer: "If I had realized he was cheating...
...complete amnesty was a practical step toward holding general elections. As a two-way political maneuver it is supposed to 1) deprive the government's opponents of a major ground for crying fraud, and 2) encourage them to make a fair try at gaining power by the ballot rather than by plotting or violence. Stumpf accepted the measure in that spirit. "We are forgetting all that has happened between us and the government," he said. "From now on we shall fight the government party within the framework...
Economic boycott is a two-way street, and Negro reprisal efforts are by no means limited to the Montgomery bus strike. A persistent report-as persistently denied -that Coca-Cola bottlers had contribut ed to White Citizens' Councils caused a sales drop around Orangeburg, S.C. (where a Coca-Cola machine in a Negro-owned service station carried a sign saying, "This machine has economic pressure. It is dangerous to insert money...