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Though Nehru could escape his country's heat, he could not escape its mounting problems. His ambitious second five-year plan, intended to industrialize India, was running short of foreign exchange, and no nation seemed eager to put up the $1.6 billion needed to fill the gap. Internally, private capital was drying up; interest rates had risen...
...oldtime glamour. Says one veteran: "Too many men in empty grey flannel suits and expressions." Says Gossipist Jimmy Starr: "At parties the TV people are on one side of the room, and the movie people are on the other side. TV and movies haven't jumped the social gap...
...necessity for a shield ... in Western Europe. And certainly," said Ike, taking oblique note of German talk of cutting NATO commitments (see FOREIGN NEWS), "the compromise plan that was adopted and the phasing out of these people was in order to give the Germans an opportunity to fill that gap...
Dulles' outline left many a gap and blank to be filled in. One gap was soon pointed out by Export-Import Bank President Samuel C. Waugh. Would the fund's easy terms undermine the businesslike hard loans that both the Export-Import Bank and World Bank are trying to make the basis for sound international development? "Soft" loans, Waugh told the Senate committee, could "imperil the status of any loans made on a strictly banking basis." Also missing from the plan was any proposal for legislation to encourage private investment abroad...
...registered with either party. But to nobody's surprise as well, the G.O.P. had carved extensive inroads since the question last was asked in 1954. At that time Gallup found a 20-million voter spread between parties; in 1957 the difference had dropped to 12.7 million, and the gap-closing was occurring in important areas: 1) among voters not now committed to either party, and 2) in the desolidifying South, where 26% of those questioned said that they would register Republican, compared to 18% who chose the G.O.P. three years...