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Against that dare stands NATO, with its 15 nations and its 500 million people, whose per capita industrial productivity is about three times that of the Soviet Union. For NATO, with all its material and moral resources, to give way before a power long-sworn to world conquest would be unthinkable. Freedom has not failed NATO, and NATO, by striving and sacrifice, must not fail freedom...
...hoof is selling for 14¾? a Ib. v. 9⅓½?a year ago; cattle raisers are holding cows off market to replenish their drought-thinned herds, but it will take them several years to do so. Result: beef output will slip from 83 Ibs. per capita this year to 81 Ibs. in 1958, only...
...India is a flabby giant. Only one Indian in six is literate, and in the nation's 500,000 villages there are only 300,000 schools. Per capita income is $59 a year (v. $237 in Japan, $2,013 in the U.S.). Nehru remarked not long ago that nearly 75% of the electric power generated in India is produced by burning cow dung...
...government have been working to strengthen India's economic muscles. Between 1951 and 1956, India's $5 billion first five-year plan increased the country's total agricultural output 18%. With the second five-year plan, New Delhi's economists hoped to raise per capita income to $69 a year, and double electric power output. Above all, they planned to treble steel production, thereby give India the heavy industry that all the world's underdeveloped nations yearn for as the badge of true economic independence...
Businessman La Cavera knows that Sicily has a long way to go. Sicily's per capita income is still woefully low at $175 annually (v. $470 in Italy's industrial region of Piedmont); many thousands of unemployed still eke out a bare existence, eating lumache ed erbe (snails and greens) gathered in the woods. But Sicily has hope and enterprise for the first time in. centuries. "It doesn't require miracles," says La Cavera. "All it takes is will and work, intelligence and initiative. In ten years, we'll catch up with the rest of Italy...