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...Self-Help. Singer Pat Suzuki and her husband. Fashion Photographer Mark Shaw, decorated their own 5½-room rental apartment on East 30th Street in Kips Bay, one of Manhattan's better-designed (by I.M. Pei) new buildings. Side by side with antiques that they picked up on foreign travels, the couple have put such odds and ends as a polarbear rug, a $10 coffee table and a butcher's table (in the dining room). To help soften the chilling effect of a lot of glass, including Shaw's mercury glass collection. Pat Suzuki introduced warm fabric...
...warpath. Louisiana Representative Otto Passman, chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Foreign Aid. last month denounced a White House request for $3 billion to finance the Alliance for the next four years as "asinine." U.S. Alliance Director Teodoro Moscoso. who bossed Puerto Rico's successful self-help program, admits: "You can hardly expect U.S. taxpayers, already heavily burdened, to help underwrite development programs in countries where a few privileged people are virtually free from taxation." In recent months, U.S. lawmakers have journeyed to Latin America to see for themselves. Arkansas' Senator John McClellan found "an attitude...
...Time For Self-Help. In Washington the betting is that the ICC will be favorably inclined toward the merger. Whether Justice Department trustbusters will agree is an open question, but given continuing truck competition and the fact that two other giant Eastern rail networks are in prospect, few railroadmen can see how a Pennsy-Central merger would create a danger of monopoly. Said one Washington railroad expert: "The Northeastern railroads are on the skids. If the Government can't or won't give them any relief, then at least they should be allowed to do something for themselves...
Labor unions are frequently instrumental in spurring unity in a relatively unstable society, Lodge said. Also, since they cannot maintain loyalty exclusively by Western methods like collective bargaining when "the economic barrow of their membership is so shallow," the labor unions frequently become socially creative agencies, building self-help housing and running co-operatives...
...American nation wants the U.S., as donor, to tell it what to do with the money. Addressing the Inter-American Press Association in Manhattan last week. U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson made it abundantly clear that the U.S. intends to see its money matched by performance and progress. ''Self-help! That is the key to much of our common concern,'' said Stevenson. "If it were lacking, no amount of money in outside aid will do much good...