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...multi-million dollar proposal, introduced to the City Council by realtor John Sullivan, calls for the construction of a 39-acre industrial center on the water area to the northeast of M.I.T. The Council approved the second reading of the petition last Monday, and it now awaits final enactment scheduled...
...vote of five to four, with Mayor Edward J. Sullivan casting the decisive ballot, the Council passed the second reading of the plan. John Briston Sullivan, defeated candidate for the School Committee, is sponsoring the multi-million dollar proposal...
...Germany's Berthold Beitz, general manager of Krupp Industries, suggested that the job of economic world uplift is too big for the investors of any one country, instead proposed that investors form a multi-nation investment association in much the same manner that six individual contracting companies joined together to build the Hoover Dam. Such pooling, said Industrialist Beitz, would provide "a great new source of investment capital." It would be a private world bank that would receive and that would lend local currencies for investment anywhere in the world...
...that private enterprise has been and can be a great force for economic and social progress." To increase its effectiveness in helping underdeveloped nations, Meany suggested 1) an International Investment Code under which nations receiving private capital or governmental technical assistance would guarantee investors against arbitrary treatment; 2) a multi-billion-dollar International Consumers Credit Fund ito underwrite long-term installment purchasing of consumer goods...
Both Greece and Turkey were admitted to NATO in 1951 in recognition of their growing military strength and importance to Western defense. At NATO's headquarters for "Southeast Land Europe" in Izmir, command functions are today divided equally between Greek, Turkish, and U.S. officers. These NATO commanders, in their multi-uniforms, frankly admit that "this alliance has little hope of accomplishing anything beyond deterrance and defense. Ultimate control over the Straits," they say, "will be crucial for naval and land operations in any future war, and it will take the Russians at least 50 or 60 divisions to break through...