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...alas, the pride soon changes to anger as young hero learns that cars have a built-in obsolescence, that manufacturers don't want to them repaired. And the anger, thoroughly , leads to the logic of the fast buck--you can't beat the racket, join it. So the mechanic bills for repairs he doesn't make, and for those he does...
Miss Winters, as has been hinted, handles the part of a cheerful unwed mother with both humor and delicacy. The way the part is written, she could come out sounding like a cut-rate whore, and apparently the strain of battling the built-in deficiencies of the role made her decide to quit. Eileen Heckart, as an often Auntie Mame-like Deedee Grogan, handles wise-cracks, insults, and pathos equally well, and looks appropriately garish in Miss Ballard's costumes. Madeleine Sherwood is hateful enough as Norma's mother, and Richard Derr, as the father of many, is grey flannel...
...Built-in Scope. The new bank has divided its cash in two. The larger portion, 85%, will be used for normal development loans repayable in the currency lent. The rest will make up a special fund for emergencies or for special projects outside the normal scope of banking, e.g., roads in Bolivia. Regardless of what currency the special loans are made in. they can be made repayable partly or wholly in the currency of the borrowing nation. Interest on normal loans will be a maximum of 6%, low by Latino standards; on special loans the rate will be as little...
...built-in scope made the new development bank the natural organization to handle the Eisenhower plan for singlehanded, soft-loan social development of Latin America by the U.S. The hope is that inter-American administration can help avoid the kind of situation that currently exists in Peru, where U.S. aid for housing and land reform is being blocked by opposition politicians. The $500 million that the U.S. has promised for the plan will be administered separately from the bank's other activities-as will other future U.S. contributions, expected to total billions before the building job is finished...
...Stuart Hughes, professor of History and Faculty sponsor of Tocsin, said "There are built-in reasons for the Soviet Union not going to war." Among these, he noted, are the Russians' memory of the devastation and horror of World War II, and the present ideological conflict between Russia and China on the necessity of war for spreading communism...