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...program will be inaugurated by Mrs. Benjamin W. White, newly appointed Education and Career Guidance Associate at the Institute. Her appointment is intended to widen the activities of the Institute to assist college women in midlife who are making choices about the direction of their lives...
...Hindu-first Jana Sangh does well, it will influence conservative Hindu Congressmen. If the Swatantra scores or Menon does poorly, it will infuriate Nehru and immeasurably strengthen the conservative element within his own Cabinet. But if the rest of the opposition falters, the Communists by default could widen their power. Says the Swatantra's Rajagopalachari: "Whether we win or not, making the attempt to really oppose is worthwhile...
...discourages purchases by small investors. Meanwhile, the stock of Ford's archrival, General Motors, has been selling briskly at around $55. Since the automakers reckon that a shareholder is likely to buy the car made by the company in which he has invested, Ford was understandably anxious to widen ownership of its stock...
...anti-Stalin line, the tiny country has been the surrogate through which Moscow and Peking have fought each other. By formally breaking with Albania, Khrushchev is now serving notice that he will not conciliate Peking, is forcing the Red Chinese either to come to heel or else publicly widen the split. Meanwhile. Albania gleefully continues to defy Moscow as Europe's last enclave of Stalin-style Communism...
Lately they have been doing that. The payments gap has narrowed from last year's $3.9 billion to an anticipated $2.3 billion this year (see chart). But in very recent months the gap has begun to widen again. Economic expansion in the U.S. has brought on a new demand for imports at a time when exports are declining. The Administration hopes to reverse this trend by spurring an energetic export drive. Last week some 2,000 businessmen who gathered in Manhattan for the annual convention of the National Foreign Trade Council expressed confidence that the export drive would succeed...