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...Indonesian officials in Djakarta announced that because the U.S. had delayed so long in answering their request for arms, they may send a mission to Eastern Europe to see if they can buy Communist arms to beef up their obsolete arsenal...
Change of Plan. To beef up the original plan of sharing capitalization and profits fifty-fifty with small borrowers, Graham has switched to 50% from an entrepreneur, 25% from a wealthy Indian (both in rupees) and 25% in dollars from Private Enterprises Inc. On the committee of Indian bankers and businessmen who screen the loans, this has the effect of more help to enterprises in which they have a chief interest. But bigger deals will persuade more big businessmen to put up more matching rupees, get them in on the crusade...
...BEEF PRICES will go up next year because supplies will head down. In Texas, beef on the hoof is selling for 14¾? a Ib. v. 9⅓½?a year ago; cattle raisers are holding cows off market to replenish their drought-thinned herds, but it will take them several years to do so. Result: beef output will slip from 83 Ibs. per capita this year to 81 Ibs. in 1958, only...
...move apparently was part of a compromise solution that would allow military men to continue plans to beef up West Europe's strength with ballistic missiles...
...post-Sputnik drive to meet the challenge of the Soviet Union's massive educational drive, the Houston school board asked the University of Houston and Rice Institute to help beef up the city's science teaching; Chicago upped the required academic courses for high school students from six to ten; Seattle plans advanced work for bright seventh graders; Nobel Prizewinner Harold Urey called for a 5½-day school week and a ten-month year. But from M.I.T. last week came evidence that the Soviet school system has faults of its own. For a report on the flaws...