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The Standing Group of North Atlantic Treaty Organizations

The Standing Group of North Atlantic Treaty Organization gathers for a group photo at the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. Front row, from left to right: Lieutenant General Paul Ely, Marshall Lord Arthur Tedder, General Omar Bradley, Air Chief Marshall Sir William Elliot, and Vice Admiral Jerauld Wright. Back row, from left to right: Major General Marc H. Fouillien, Air Vice Marshall Hugh Campbell, Rear Admiral Svend Ramlauhansen, Lieutenant General Enrico Frattini, Rear Admiral Jonkheer H. A. Van Foreest, Rear Admiral Johs E.

Searching for Water in Iran

A group of unidentified men with donkeys carrying small tanks for gathering water. Before the Point Four program arrived in Iran, the village of Mayan obtained its water from seepage to shallow potholes from a polluted creek near the village. The village landlord decided to cooperate with the Point Four program to get residents better water.

Water Station in Iran

The village of Mayan, Iran has a more modern, sanitary water system, with faucets such as this every few hundred feet throughout the village. This water system, an improvement over the seepage from a polluted creek, was built with the assistance of the Point Four Program and the Technical Cooperation Administration.

William B. Mabee Inspects Dead Locusts

William B. Mabee, an entomologist with the United States Department of Agriculture, examines a handful of dead locusts in the desert area of Pakistan where locusts breed. Mr. Mabee directed a Point Four program conducted jointly by the governments of Pakistan and the United States to control a locust plague. Control measures consisted of aerial spraying of insecticide and hand-spreading poisoned bait.