64156 WELCOME TO NEW STAFF- DECEMBER (L to R Standing) Miss JO}/ce W. Kibunja, Administration, from Nairobi; Miss Myrtle Spencer, Projects, from Grenada, West Indies; Mr. Samir M. Kaibni, Treasurer's, from Ramallah, Jordan; Miss Grace R. McAlpine, Economics, from Perth, Australia; Miss Margaret A. Ramsay, Economics, from Vancouver, Canada; Miss Judith E. Beard, I.F.C, from Tobago, West Indies; Miss Normita A. Gonzales, Treasurer's, from Quezon City. (L to R Sitting) Mrs. Gloria M. Ferrell, Office of Executive Di rector, from Bogota, Colombia; Miss Clara Guzman, Administration, from Moca, Dominican Republic; Miss Estrella P. Angeles, Asia, from Manila, Philippines; Mrs. Brutawit Abdi, Office of Executive Director, from Addis Ababa; Miss Sawatsri Viboonsiriroj, Treasurer's from Bangkok; Mrs. Beatrice Lubsey, Administration, from Kingston, Jamaica; Miss Kay P. Embert, Administration, from Greensboro, Maryland. Insert: Miss Pourandokht Abolmaali, Administration, from Tehran. International Bank Notes Volume 22 Number 1 January 1968 page The Print Shop . . . . . .. . .. .. . . . . 3 New Professional Staff ... . . .. . . 9 Published by the Personnel Division of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development Washington, D.C. 2 The Print Sho How should Bank Notes begin the spent in Print Shop employment. new year? With a story of a new, Thirteen nationalities are repre­ we'" fairly new, department? Per­ sented in Print Shop personnel, per­ haps, but which one? With a story of haps the most international of any an old "shop" with new ideas? A unit of its size in the Bank. service unit known to all the staff Twenty-three members make up and one whose work goes to every the Print Shop staff including a night office, all floors, all buildings, every shift of four. The "night" shift be­ day? The Print Shop! gins in the afternoon at half past two and works until 11 :00 p.m. By hav­ Never "put to bed" like a news­ ing a night shift, overtime work is paper, the Print Shop workload is lessened and much of the work re­ constant, changing only with certain ceived late in the day can be com­ seasons from busy to busier. Before pleted for early morning delivery. Annual Meeting time is busiest. Colin Russell, from Jamaica, is in Another peak looms before the end charge of the night shift. of the fiscal year. The workload of the Print Shop The Print Shop, part of the Print­ is a graphic indication of the growth ing and Graphics Section, of the of the Bank. In the vernacular of Office Services Division, is super­ the shop, work is counted as "im­ vi,sed by Walter Zollinhofer. To all pressions" and these have grown the staff he is "Shorty", well known from eleven mHlion in 1961 to for his acrimonious humor. If one's twenty-four million in 1967. " Im­ insult quotient is high with Shorty pressions" are the number of pieces one can be sure he is held in high of paper that are printed or mimeo­ regard! Shorty's Bank employment graphed. Bank reports are usually a will reach the twenty-year mark in combination of processes, at least September, this year. Mr. Zollinhofer two in most-mimeographing and is an Amedcan from Riverdale, offset. Maryland ' and is the proud grand­ To help battle the increase in pro­ father of two boys. Bob Gardner is duction and to facilitate printing on Shorty's assistant. He has been a both sides of the paper, a new ma­ staff member for nineteen years, all chine arrived on January 23. It will 3 not only print on both sides of the mailing costs, cut down the volume paper but will collate and assemble and expedite production. the material. The Mu ! l tilith Offset Five different sections comprise Duplicator, Model 2575, will be used the Print Shop operation. The work principally for reports and press re­ of each begins with the "Enter" sign '. ~ leases. It should reduce paper and on the first floor, rear corridor of Patricia Cane logs in a request with Sayyed L. Miri. Dale Sweeney, Printing and Graphics Offset-three of the five machines in Supervisor; Walter Zollinhofer, Print operation. Giuseppe Franchini (center), Shop Supervisor; Robert Gardner, As­ Francisco Delgado (rear), and Aldo sistant Print Shop Supervisor. Spinelli. 4 1818. Every secretary knows this two in reserve, can do 4,000 im­ spot. Whatever the request, it is pressions in an hour. All stencils are logged in, then goes to its destina­ logged in, dated and filed for reuse tion: if necessary. Mimeograph Machines, of which Offset Press prints everything from there are five, three in constant use, 3xS cards to forms which measure Joe Mayes receives from Daniel Johnson a plate from the /tek Automatic Plate Maker. Mimeograph machines get constant use. Shown here (back to front) Muayyad Aldaghstani, Natale Muzzatti, and Gio­ vanni Pessotto. Co/in Russell, Night Supervisor. Louis Toeh/ serves a turn as cameraman. Ivan Radan and Ricardo Moril/as exer­ cise care for accuracy on the cutting machine. 6 11 x17 inches. Paper stock used in When Print Shop work is dis­ printing is referred to by its weight. cussed, the recent Indus Report in­ It may be "nine pound" (500 sheets variably is mentioned. It is the of onion skin measuring 17x22 largest ever done so far. It consists inches) or it might be 110 pounds if of ten volumes: 3,600,000 impres­ it's index card stock (500 sheets sions were printed and collated and measuring 25-1/2 x 30-1/2 inches) . it contains fifty-four maps. Offset is a familiar term to print­ Collating and Bindery. This is the ers-an operation which means that section that cuts, punches, folds and the plate does not touch the paper assembles-very important as the it prints. Instead the plate trans­ appearance of the finished product fers its print to a rubber blanket depends on the precision of this sec­ which in tu rn prints the paper. tion. Care must be taken not to miss a page or to have two pages the same-to put the maps and charts in the right sequence. The boys say it is not inspiring, it's boring, really! But it's one of the jobs and every man is trained in all the operations of the unit and takes his turn with­ out complaining. Copy and Print Making. Work here is done by a camera but not in the usual photographic sense. No human models, just maps, charts and large tables. After the photo­ graph is taken a plate is made for use on one of the offset presses. Copy Machine. A Xerox produces copies as requested but the number Moffak Mouchti retouching. is limited to ten. (Some people can remember when the stock sold for that.) Above ten, it's cheaper to Louis Pizza preparing file jackets. (Rec­ ord of impressions.) print. Last year 1,500,000 copies were made by the machines in the Pdnt Shop. When moving day comes, the Print Shop will transfer to the new building, on the 18th Street side, still on the first floor. Wherever they are the staff knows that the same mountains of work can be depended upon with the same good cheer in unbelievable time. 1'968 is sure to be a good year! 7 Running the Thomas Collators are Charles Gist (L) and Guillermo Ospina. James Jeter operates the Xerox 2400 while William Grau works at the sorter. Collating-a job the boys call boring. Seated (L to R) Fabian Chew, Natale Muzzatti and Ali Agah. Behind them William Kelly and Thermon Eakins look over a finished job ready for collating. 8 Professional Staff New , It l 1 CARL A.C. HAMMERSCHMIDT, from Australia, joined the Projects Department, Education Division, on December 1, 1967. He received his Dipl,oma in Building Science and Degree in Architecture in Den­ mark, and in 1939 was awarded the King's Gold Medal in ArchitectureITown Planning from the Higher School of Studies, the Royal Academy, Copenhagen. Subsequently he became a Ufe Fellow of the Danish Royal Society of Artists. Mr. Hammerschmidt has been practicing architecture in Scandinavia, Australia, Turkey and Pakistan. For eight years he held the post of Senior Lecturer and Studio Master at Melbourne University and served two years as UNESCO Professor of Architecture in Ankara, and four years as UNESCO Professor of Architectural Engineering in Lahore; he has also been a Consultant­ Architect to the Bank. Mr. Hammerschmidt is an Associate Member of the Royal Institutes of Architects in Australia and Great Britain and a Fellow and former Council Member, Institute of Architects, Pakistan. FREDERICK LYNN ALEXANDER, from the United States, joined Ad­ ministration, Computer Service Division, as a Computer Programmer on December 4, 1967. Before taking up his position with the Bank, Mr. Alexander worked for the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation in Washington where he was Head of Production Control. From 61-65 he was stationed at the Keesler Technical Tra: i ning Center where he was First Lieutenant, United States Air Force; he was a Technical Instructor teaching various USAF Officers' courses con­ cerning programming and maintenance of computing systems. Mr. Alexander received his A.B. degree from Cornell University; his major subject was mathematics. He is working for his lL.B. degree at George Washington University. Mr. and Mrs. Alexander and their year old daughter live in Alexandria. ! FRANK THOMAS, from Australia, joined Projects, Agriculture Di­ vision, as a Project Director on December 4, 1967. He left with his family almost immediately to take up his duties in Ecuador where he wHI be Director for the Livestock ' Development Project. He is assigned to the Project Commission of the Government of Ecuador. From June 1964, Mr. Thomas worked as a Pastoral Superintendent for the Queensland Stations Pty. Ltd., concerned with Beef Cattle Production, in Melbourne, Australia. Before this, he was Senior Re­ search Officer with the Department of Primary Industry, Common­ wealth Government, Canberra. Mr. Thomas received his B.Se. degree in Agriculture from London University. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas have two sons and a daughter. 9 UNICEF cards at Christmastide are very much a part of the World Bank Group. The practice of ordering cards through the Staff Relations Office as a convenience to the staff started in 1952 and has continued since then. 1967 was a banner year with orders totaling $612. This is not our only association with UNICEF and probably many of the staff are not aware that we make another con­ tribution in quite a different way. It happens because of a Bank policy which advises staff against accepting gifts from members of countries who are involved in Bank business. When a staff member feels that he must accept a gift because refusal is too embarrassing, he is expected to pass the gift along to the Administration Department from whence it goes eventually to the auction block. The proceeds from these auctions are given to aid the work of UNICEF. The last auction sale was held in December 1967. Proceeds from this sale and others held throughout the year amounted to the rather im­ pressive sum of $2,600. This amount was sent to UNICEF. Henry R. Labouisse, Executive Director of UNICEF and former IBRD staff member, expressed appreciation for UNICEF­ "Thank you very much for the check for $2,600 which has reached us with your letter of December 21 as a contribution to UNICEF from members of the staff of the World Bank Group. "This contribution is greatly appreciated. It was thoughtful that UNICEF should be selected as the beneficiary of the pro­ ceeds from public auction or private sale of gifts which had reached members of your staff. While this contribution will be treated as a private matter between them and UNICEF, I hope there will be an opportunity for them to learn how very pleased we are to have their support." 10 UNITED GIVERS FUND Bank Notes is pleased to report that once more the World Bank Group earned the title of "Top Givers" in the United Givers Fund Campaign for 1967. Much of the credit for this fine showing is due to the time and effort given by the Keygirls and Keymen and we hope they will accept the thanks and congratulations of the staff. Special congratulations are extended to the following departments who achieved 1100% participation: Secretary's, Legal, Information, Economic Development In­ stitute, and I.F.e. Office of the Vice President and Library. The final report for the campaign is shown below : Number in Number and Contributions Department Department % Contributing Total Office of the President 30 23 76% $1,609.50 Executive Directors and Staff 72 48 66% 1,326.00 Africa 62 56 88% 1,685.00 Asia 80 71 87% 1,798.00 Europe 18 16 88% 890.00 Middle East & North Africa 25 23 92% 559.00 Western Hemisphere 65 51 77% 1,845.00 Secretary's 35 35 100% 905.00 Legal 41 41 100% 1,302.90 Development Services 26 25 97% 2,262.38 Economics 200 99 49% 2,003.00 Adm inistration 276 189 68% 2,037.95 Information 33 33 100% 1,040.00 Projects 285 189 65% 5,863.10 Treasurer's 162 132 82% 2,145.00 E.D.I. 37 37 100% 869.70 Program Eval,uation & Control 14 12 86% 275.00 I.F.e. Vice President's Office & Library 12 12 100% 783.00 Legal 19 16 84% 315.00 Latin America, Europe & Australasia 37 32 86% 703 .00 Africa, Asia & Middle East 27 19 70% 640.00 Engineering 24 21 87% 515 .50 Development Finance Co. 46 40 86% 925.00 1,626 1,220 75% $32,298.03 11 THE STAMP BOX (With assistance from Christopher Me/moth and Christian Merat) The Indus and its five tributary rivers comprise one of the great river systems of the world. Its annual flow is twice that of the Nile and sufficient to submerge al 'l of Texas, or France in its entirety, under one foot of water. Use of the rivers' waters, descending from the high Himalayas to the plains of West Pakistan and northwestern India, had been a source of dispute for many years and especiailly so after the partitioning of the sub­ continent in 1947. Early in 1952, a proposal by the Bank to lend its goon offices in seeking a solution for the use of the Indus waters was accepted by India and Pakistan. There followed two years of study by a technical group representing the three parties and some six years of dis­ cussions and negotiations, most of which were carried on at the Bank's offices in Wash­ ington. It all culminated in the Indus Water Treaty of 1960 signed by India, Pakistan and the Bank on September 19 of that year. Some time prior to that, however, after it had become apparent that the cost of the project was far beyond the capacity of India and Pakistan, the Bank had entered an independent series of negotiations soliciting the financial aid of a number of friendly governments. These discussions ended with the Indus Basin Development Fund Agreement under which, and including a Bank loan of $80 million, India, Pakistan, Australia, Canada, Germany, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States agreed to contribute the equivalent of $894 million to the Development Fund. This was supplemented early in 1964 to provide an additional $315 million of which $58.54 million was an IDA credit. The Bank acts as the Administrator of the Fund with the responsibility for calling-up contributions and regulating disbursements. . The Treaty entitled India to the use of the waters of the three eastern rivers; Pakistan to that of the three western rivers; and provided for a transition period during which Paki­ stan would construct a system of link canals to obtain water from the western rivers replac­ ing water previously supplied by rivers in the east. The program is one of the largest of its kind undertaken anywhere. [Jack in 1960, the rivers and the hundred-year-old irrigation system supported some forty million people-approximately one tenth of the combined population of the two countries. The area of irrigated land was about thirty million acres, an area larger than is irrigated in Egypt and the Sudan by the Nile. The link canals will be nearly four hundred miles in total length and the annual volume of water to be transferred will just about equal the entire flow of the Colorado River in Western United States. Three of the canals will each be big enough to carry twice as much water as the average flow of the Potomac at \lVashington cr ten times as much as the average flow of the Thames at Teddington . INDUS BASIN PROJECT 12 One of the two huge dams in the Project is the Mangla Dam on the Jhelum River. One of the largest in the world ; this dam has a crest of more than two miles, a height of 380 feet above the river bed and a reservoir extending forty miles . To commemorate the inauguration o f Mangla Dam on November 23, 1967, Pakistan issued this fifteen paisa stamp in yellow, blue, red and black. The design shows the spillway with water gushing through the sluice gates and, in the background, the vast lake merging into the horizon. The insignia of WAPDA (the Water and Power Development Authority of West Pakistan formed in 1958 to plan and execute the Project) appears in the upper left corner. Nor is this the end o f the story. Opened recently were tenders for the construction of the tremendous Tarbela Dam to be built on the Indus and which will have a storage capacity twice that of Mangla. Tarbela is scheduled fo r completion in 1976. Between the Bookends Esme Benjamin reviews THE CAT by Simenon If you are a Simenon fan you will agree that only nis name could stir up much interest in a book of this title; and more so if you read the reviews, which al 'l sum up the book with, "This is the story of an elderly couple who haven't spoken to each other for a number of months because she poisoned his pet (a stray cat) and he in turn killed her pet (a parrot)". However, having read Simenon before, I knew there must be more to THE CAT than that-and I was right. The story is not a mystery by any means, but it is fu II of intrigue. It's the kind of book that makes one wonder whether the author intended' his audience to laugh or to cry. If a book can be described as elegant, I would say that Simenon has created elegance of stark simp 'l icity. He does this in all his books. C. J. Martin reviews WHERE EAGLES DARE by Alistair MacLean The "blurb" says that the novel, is a ta 'ie of deadly darings of double dealings and treachery. British agents are parachuted into Germany to try to rescue from a mountain fastness, Lt. General Carnaby (a more appropriate name for 1967 than 1943) who had crashed in Germany on his way to a conference on the Second Front in Crete with Russian and other Allies, but who in reality was an actor being paid $25,000 for an impersonation . Finally we find that the leading doub'!e dealer i.s-you'll have to guess. The story is general ly fast-moving. Since the attack is in the mountains, we are provided with acrobatics on the roofs of cable cars. Based on the only time I was marooned in one, I would think escapades by spies would be nigh impossible, but our hero was successful on the high wires with only one free arm. We have savage dogs, military police, beautiful girls and long chats over brandy between British spies and top German Gestapo officers which is frightfully civ dized. I like fiction, but I don't see why the facts have to be wrong. The pilot makes a comment on landing at Heathrow-not built until long after the war. The whole parachute group is rescued by a Mosquito aircraft which never could have stored half of them, and the bad man jumps through one of its doors, but unfortunately the aircraft was not designed to permit any such maneuver. German Intelligence would have been suspicious immediately of any British General flying from England to the Middle East over Germany which was not the normal route. Last'!y Crete was occupied by the Germans by 1943 and an official Allied conference would have been somewhat difficult to arrange there. Even MI 6 should have known that! But if you are not old enough to remember these things or you just don't' mind' errors, it is quite an absorbing novel and I suggest that you read it. 13 I BORROWERS LIKE BANK STAFF By Bernard Chadenet One reason why Bank work is attractive is that borrowers are so fond of us, and we should admire the effectiveness of Bank recruitment, which has assembled in 1818 H Street such a likable group of people. As a Frenchman, I am particularly impressed with the first-name relationship between my colleagues and minis­ ters, even though some of the latter have mentioned to me that they find it difficult to conform to this rite. Many years ago, an incident enabled me to evaluate how much -or how little-of our popularity is attributable to our personal qualities: in the prehistoric time of the DC7, engine trouble caused my flight from Brazil to Peru to terminate in La Paz. I thus found myself at dusk on the quay at the port of Guaqui, on the Bolivian shore of Lake Titicaca, without advance notice to anyone, attempt­ ing to persuade the person in charge of the ship which crosses the lake to Peru overnight to allow me on board. The quality of my Spanish, the fact that the official was very busy and that his ship was not providing passenger service that night caused a long argument. But in the end I was allowed on board, albeit very reluctantly. Next morning I was awakened by an elegant maid, accompanied by the ship's captain in a smart uniform. The maid was bringing tea and the captain wanted to extend a warm welcome to me. I gradually realized that this friendly gentleman was the same per­ son as the unshaven man in the turtle-neck sweater with whom I had argued the previous evening. I also realized that the dif­ ference between the roughness on the Bolivian shore and the warm hospitality near the Peruvian shore had been caused by the receipt of a cable, explaining who I was and what the World Bank was up to. But it was pleasant to recover my popularity. ¥~)~~)~ 111111 till 1111 8888S8 [ eL e 1 88e 688 [}L [} :"'1 (.:.:. ) ) 1 What do you mean, Oh, look at my new 1>ty alarm didn't Who proofread this? 'liell, I don't know how Miniskirt? Where? "Make a clean copy typewriter I go off this s he has the nerve to for Banknotes"? I morning. w;;ar a miniskirt. told you they were typos I 14 Hospital on January 17 and weighed 6 Ibs. 12 oz. The Eckriches also have a son, Richard. A first daughter and third child for Mary and Phill , i p Richardson. Mamie Inze was born at the George Washington University Hospital on January 23 and weighed 5 Ibs. 13 ozs. BIRTHS: An eighth child and daughter for Catherine and Thomas Stringfellow ENGAGEMENTS: Eric M. Saks, Adminis­ (Administration Department), Cheryl tration, becarne engaged to Beverly Wenda was born at the George Wash­ Spector of New York City, on Novem­ ington University Hospital on Decem­ ber 22. A May wedding is being planned . ber 18 and weighed 7 Ibs. 12 oz. Joanne Shepherd, Treasurer's, became Gav and L. Hartsell Cash (I.F.C.) wel­ engaged to Frank Wilson on December com~d the arrival of their first child, 24. They will be married on June 15 a baby boy, on December 26. Leon Hart­ at St. Anne's Church, Washington, D.C. sell was born at the George Washington and will make their home in Maryland. University Hospital and weighed 7 Ibs. 4-1/2 oz. BEST WISHES TO: Catherine Mary Adler A second son for Jongja and Suk Hong (daughter of Mr. John Adler, Economics) Choi (Administration Department). Alex­ and Gerald Dent, who were married at ander was born at the <;:;corge Washing­ the Adlers' home on January 13. ton University Hospital on January 6 Irene W. Crowe and Guy Pfeffermann, and weighed 8 Ibs. 5 oz. Administration, who were married on June and Bharat B. Krishna (Econo­ Saturday, January 13, in Easton, Mary­ mics) welcomed the arrival of their first land. The couple will make their home child on January 9. Savita Nicole was in Washington, D.C. born at the George Washington Univer­ Gladys Urquizo, Administration, who sity Hospital and weighed 7 Ibs. 5-1/2 married Cesar Murillo at St. Matthew's oz. Cathedral, Washington, D.C. on Janu­ A daughter for Vickey and Kurt Eck­ ary 20. Mr. Murillo is an Accountant. rich (I.F.C.). Juliana 'Barlow was born The couple will make their home in at the George Washington UniversHy Washington, D.C. IN MEMORIAM Mrs. Ida M. Carson, mother of Zoe Carson, Economics Department, January 15, in Jamaica. ~M8~888 W&I.W ffilIfIHIlHI3 a~ ~,'B ~~I~i ffil~ ~ ffi fa ~ ~ $ Et [ .. J Et [ .. J [8 8J ~ 0 .. O~ ~I ':"'1 :.; ff38 ...:.; 1 You say I left I should never work When I make a 1!la!'k But I b.c.o. 'd to Let's see, i f I fly from out a whole beyond 8 o'clock. like that I mean the office next door; here to funtreal to Paris sentence? "footnote" they should have caught to Natal to Rio, that would the calls. be direct enough, wouldn't it? 15 TWENTY YEAR STAFF-JANUARY (l to R)-jean P. Anezin, Administration; A. F. Ceolot, Projects; Andrew Brooks, Administration. Insert-Harold Larsen, Africa TEN YEAR STAFF-JANUARY Christa Linder, Treasu rer's; Thomas Rimpler, Administration. Unable to be present: Linda Leconte, European Office . FIVE YEAR STAFF-JANUARY (L to R) Florence O'Brien, Africa; Cunter Naleppa, Projects; Aldo Parmeggiani, ProJects; Betty Barrett, Treasurer's; james jennings, Projects; Mirza Baig, Asia; X. F. de la Renaudiere, Africa. Inserts: Francoise Berube, I. F. c.; Harry C. Phil/ips, jr., I. F. C.