Word: chandrasekhar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...idea has sometimes been hard to get across. Government demonstrators stretched sheaths over bamboo sticks, but peasants wondered later why the magic did not work when they, too, faithfully stretched them over bamboo. Even so, the test appears successful enough for India's new Health Minister, Dr. Sripati Chandrasekhar, who holds a Ph.D. in demography from New York University, to try out the scheme on a nationwide basis in September. The Health Ministry is negotiating with such large firms as Lipton, Imperial Tobacco, Hindustan Lever, Union Carbide, and Tata Oil Mills Co. to handle distribution. The companies...
...Y.M.C.A. Method. Chandrasekhar agrees with critics that India's birth control efforts have been snarled by red tape and hurt by wishful thinking, such as his spinster predecessor's plea for brahmacharya (monklike abstinence). Nor does he place his hopes on any single method to defuse India's population time bomb. While other experts have alternatively argued for the intrauterine loop, sterilization or the pill, Chandrasekhar recognizes that none alone can provide the answer; popular fears of the loop and surgery bear him out. Instead, he vigorously favors a "cafeteria approach," giving Indians the widest choice...
...Family planning finally got a friend in Sripati Chandrasekhar, 48, a world-famed demographer who became the new Minister of State for Health. He replaces Sushila Nayar, a cheerful but backward-looking spinster who had never shown any enthusiasm for birth control programs and, in fact, sometimes did not even bother to spend her department's allocated budget. Chandrasekhar, who plans to emphasize the use of the loop contraceptive for women, will enforce an all-out program to reduce India's birth rate. -As for food, the new minister was certain to bring a sense of urgency...
...supernova's own gigantic size is its undoing. Astrophysicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar calculated that a star whose mass is greater than 1.44 times the sun's mass cannot follow normal stellar evolution. Over a few million years, burning hydrogen on the outer layers of such a star produces more and more helium at its core. The doomed star's interior shrinks rapidly; and the density of its core increases. As temperatures rise in the contracting core, the collected helium is converted into successively heavier elements, such as iron and gold, which crowd the lighter elements outward...
...Census Bureau are restricted to the year 1958 and give China's population as 678 million. The U.S. independent Population Reference Bureau estimates that there were 716 million Chinese in mid-1961, a figure agreeing with that of India's demographic expert, Dr. Sripati Chandrasekhar...