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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...foreign-exchange reserves have shot up to a whacking $6.5 billion (British holdings: $2.8 billion), and West German exports now top those of every other European country. Yet since 1956 the Germans have spent just $60 million altogether in technical aid. Last week when the nine-nation Development Assistance Group met in Bonn, the U.S.'s Assistant Secretary of the Treasury T. Graydon Upton bluntly told his German hosts that it was time that West Germany shouldered a full share of foreign...
...more far-reaching plan is to levy a special tax, the proceeds of which would be earmarked for an aid program. But as a German delegate hastily explained to his Development Assistance Group colleagues, this is a pre-election year in West Germany-"a bad time for burdening the German public with new taxes...
...Sized Jobs. The 15 American toilers in Shagamu are part of a 180-student group called Operation Crossroads-Africa, one of the most ambitious and useful summer work-camp ideas yet devised in the U.S. Chosen from 700 applicants, they come from 75 colleges of all kinds and sizes. Nearly half are girls, and the roster includes 25 Southern white students, 35 U.S. Negroes, two U.S. Indians, two Chinese-Americans and 13 Yalemen led by the university chaplain. Many of the students had scholarships to pay their expenses; those who could paid $800, or about half the cost...
Last month the group mustered in Manhattan for a week-long briefing by State Department and U.N. experts before splitting into work parties in ten West African states. Joined by African students for two months of hard labor, they live in primitive villages and tackle man-sized jobs: a youth center in Senegal, a small hospital in Cameroon, a library in Liberia. To test their changing attitudes toward Africa, a researcher from M.I.T.'s Center for International Studies has gone along to travel from group to group talking to the students; he will later return to the villages...
Registered summer school students may also take private or group tennis instruction from expert Kimball Jones this summer. Group rates are $6 for eight 90-minute lesson, with registration in Grays Hall...