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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...does use paint. Any other resemblance in the recent works of Enrique Castro-Cid to traditional artmaking is a backward stretch of the imagination. His palette also includes electromagnets, electric eyes, air compressors, motion-picture projectors; his gift is in knowing how to combine them deftly into an esthetic commentary (see opposite page). Says he: "I put all the components together to make a situation that is not predictable...
...disturbing similarities to the beginning of the war in Viet Nam. Red China's Foreign Minister Chen Yi, in fact, pointedly predicted last year that the struggle in Thailand would soon start. For their launching spot, the Communists picked a remote region of Thailand that is not only backward economically (annual income is well below the $100 national average) but harbors people who are ethnically closer to the Laotians than to the Thais. Many village youths, impatient with government promises of progress and eager for what they fancy will be adventure, have been lured into the Phu Pan hills...
Beef on the Hoof. The crisis has sparked bitter criticism of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and her Food Minister, Chidambaram Subramaniam, but much of the problem lies in India's backward agriculture and age-old dietary habits. India's land produces only about half as much per acre as U.S. land, largely because of primitive farming implements and practices, lack of pesticides and fertilizer, soil exhaustion and uncertain water supply. Besides, India's burgeoning population-12 million new mouths per year-has simply outstripped the country's ability to produce enough food to feed...
Modest though it was, the plan represented quite an unbending of the French economy by De Gaulle's austere standards for his Fifth Republic. The man he chose to carry out the change is a proven expert in bending over backward: Finance and Economics Minister Michel Debré, 54. Before he became De Gaulle's first Premier in 1959, Debré had been totally committed to keeping Algeria French; his main task turned out to be implementing De Gaulle's policy for Algerian independence. De Gaulle rewarded Debré in the arbitrary manner of princes, dumping...
...every $1 in wages earned aboard subsidized ships, their operators have felt little spur to cut costs and improve services. Some of the sharpest criticism comes from the inside. Says Vice President Joseph A. Medernach of Moore-McCormack Lines: "The industry is one of the most backward, stodgiest and stuffiest businesses around...