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Tata & Kariba. Both India's Damodar Valley and Mexico's Tecuala owe their new prosperity to that most capitalistic of all capitalist archetypes: the banker. He is Eugene Black, president of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development-generally known as the World Bank. It was the World Bank that lent Mexico $24 million to help bring power to Tecuala and other forgotten towns. To India it lent $38 million for its Damodar project, and from both nations President Black expects to get every nickel back-with interest...
Monro placed more emphasis on the idea that it is the University's duty and obligation to expand. "We owe the country no less," he said. He further pointed out that the University has become a great one only by "taking on one big problem after another with enthusiasm and success...
Bailey's attack was directed not just against Freudian theory, but against a wide range of psychiatric practices that owe little or nothing to Freud. Psychosurgery, said Bailey, has built a sorry monument of mutilated frontal lobes. "I am frankly appalled by the [aftereffects] of lobotomy and similar operations-abusive and obscene language, uninhibited sexual drive, obnoxious mannerisms, stealing, suggestibility . . . The great neuro-surgical revolution has proved abortive; it has not emptied our state hospitals." Later, "much the same panegyrics attended the spread of the shock gospel as had attended the spread of lobotomy and -in a previous generation...
...TIME was the first great American magazine to concede to Latin America the importance it deserves," said Alberto Lleras Camargo, former President of Colombia and ex-secretary-general of the Organization of American States. "I have been a constant reader these 15 years. We Latin Americans owe much to TIME, not only to the Latin American edition but to the HEMISPHERE section in the domestic edition, which has done more to acquaint the U.S. with Latin America than any other effort, collective or individual, governmental or private...
Both parties owe it to the United States to name vice presidential candidates who stand for the same policies as the presidential candidates. In these days of grave national responsibility and danger, any party which names a President who stands for one policy and a vice president who stands for another should be decisively rebuked at the polls...