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DEVELOPMENT LOAN FUND, from which U.S. lends to spur private enterprises abroad, has suffered severe pruning in battle of budget. With backlog of about $1.5 billion in loan requests from all parts of world, fund had hopes for $1 billion appropriation in next fiscal year. But Administration reluctantly cut figure to $700 million, and Congress is expected to trim more...
Printing: To spur productivity in factory and field, governments need money. The bulk of it is simply printed...
...spur to the drive came yesterday with a solicited message from Deans Bundy and Monro, who noted, "what parents have done is their concern--this Drive is yours. Giving is something Harvard men have habitually done well...
...spur gifts, the Coop has offered a prize of books or records to the library of the House with the largest per capita contribution...
When he was appointed Bishop of Berlin last year, Doepfner had only seen the city once. Short, muscular, and an enthusiastic mountain climber, he was shocked at first by Berlin's flatness, but he soon found his east (60%)-west (40%) diocese as stimulating as a spur of the Alps. He has battled incessantly against the "youth dedication" ceremonies the Communists have been trying to substitute for Christian confirmation, and against the growing antichurch pressure of the East German regime. Last summer he played host at an all-German Katholikentag, which brought some 150,000 Catholics from both sides...