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...past 19 months, Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser has lavished ill-spared funds and fighting men on the backward, arid republic of Yemen, where a revolutionary leader backed by Nasser is struggling against the stubborn remnants of the ousted royal regime. Nasser has committed 36,000 Egyptian troops - one-third of his entire army - but the royalists still control the countryside, penning the revolutionaries in a few garrisons. Last week, paying his first visit to Yemen since the 1962 coup, Nasser was plainly anxious to decide whether to cut his losses or to continue the costly desert...
...Lenin did just that. He adapted Marx to totally different conditions than those known to the scholarly, misanthropic exile in 19th century London. Marx predicted that the revolution would happen in an advanced industrial society and shaped his theories to this prophecy; Lenin applied them to a backward peasant country. Marx was inclined to sit back and let the revolution come; Lenin taught that it had to be helped along with the aid of a corps of professional revolutionaries...
Though his constructions have had the brittle, balanced look of a Buck Rogers chessboard, recently Ortman has been going backward. He builds painting around a detailed formal analysis of past masters. He has broken down Gauguin's triptych Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?, Matisse's Piano Lesson, Botticelli's Allegory of Spring. Says he: "I try to find the actual construction of the painting with geometrical symbols. My subject matter is paint. Someone told me that art comes from art; I took it literally...
Equally important, as far as the Common Market was concerned, Franco began to reform Spain's backward economy. Many rigid state controls on prices and production were abolished, and foreign investors began priming the Hispanic pump. Spain's annual industrial output climbed at a rate of 11% a year; gross national income rose at 6% to a record $13 billion last year. Gold and foreign-currency reserves, a paltry $65 million five years ago, now total $1.2 billion...
...five-year-old read more than 200 books in his first year. In the U.S., where about 3,000 children are using the method, Lehigh University has 600 first-graders reading at up to third-grade level. Significantly, the British also find that I.T.A. works seeming miracles with backward children. One group of slow seven-year-olds, who had been unable to read more than three words, soared to normal reading levels after only eight weeks of I.T.A. training...