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QBVIOUSLY a sure-fire collection of self-help topics," said Publishers' Weekly in announcing the new book to the trade. The book: a new edition of Ovid's The Art of Love, including The Remedies of Love, The Art of Beauty, etc. The great Roman poet's famed work, combining amatory advice with a rake's recollections, scandalized Emperor Augustus when it first appeared about 1 B.C. Never had the Loves read as well in English as in the new translation by Rolfe Humphries, longtime Latin teacher and poet, who combines current lingo and idiom with...
Senatorial Self-Help. After knocking down an amendment by ranking GOP appropriations member John Taber that the President be commended for already seeking cuts, Democrats by a 219-178 party-line vote, handily passed their resolution, sent it on to the White House...
...committee of South Bend businessmen set about making the city attractive to industry, saw three dozen firms move in within three years. Last fortnight the erstwhile textile center of New Bedford, Mass, rallied more than 1,000 citizens to a mass meeting to help kick off a new self-help plan for luring new industry...
Puerto Rico's self-help plan is a smashing success, there for any eye to see. San Juan's big, handsome new airport at Isla Verde, built for $15 million, makes most mainland terminals look shabby. An impressive low-cost housing program in San Juan has built 20,000 units. Private building has kept pace. Television antennas forest the roofs of the dwindling slums, and Governor Luis MunÕz Marin this week inaugurates an island-wide TV hookup. Wide boulevards and superhighways stretch out from the capital...
...role provides, ostensibly, multilateral economic assistance, rather than the unilateral type of Point-Four or Marshall Plan aid. As such, it will be more palatable to the recipients of the aid. It contributes to that spirit of willing cooperation and mutual self-help between non-Soviet nations which is vital to free-world cohesion. In its new role NATO would accent multilateral, inter-regional economic assistance rather than attempt to defend absolutely the indefensible land mass of Western Europe. This should go far to better political and economic relations between the NATO states and other non-Soviet nations...