Word: columne
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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REMEMBER! said the three-column ad in Indian newspapers, TODAY is A DINNERLESS DAY. Thus the government one day last week began its campaign to prepare Indians for what has become an annual food crisis. It was bad enough last year when India harvested 88 million tons of grain, far short of the nation's need. This year the harvest is expected to fall below 75 million tons. What with some 12 million more mouths to feed, India faces its severest food crisis in two decades...
Joseph Kraft, 41, a Washington-political commentator for Harper's, is writing a new thrice-weekly column on politics in the U.S. and abroad. He pays particular attention to the intricacies of political institutions and how they shape and misshape policies...
Carl Rowan, 40, returns to journalism after serving as Ambassador to Finland and director of USIA. He plans to avoid strictly racial topics in his thrice-weekly column, which deals with everything from what's wrong with U.S. foreign policy to what's wrong with present-day pop tunes...
Martin Luther King, 36, is concentrating on racial issues in his weekly column. Capitalizing on the evocative refrain from the speech he made at the civil rights march to Washington in 1963, he calls his column "My Dream." It is an expansive dream indeed. The column, his syndicate says, "will deal with the need for creative nonviolence around the globe, for a spiritual renaissance, for peace and for understanding, as well as for freedom from totalitarianism in all its forms, and dignity in Bogalusa and Harlem...
Novelist John Steinbeck, 63, will write a column when the mood strikes him as he travels about Europe. His subjects, he has told Long Island's Newsday, which will handle syndication, "might range from Irish fairies to the best way to throw rocks at Princess Margaret." Unlike most other columnists, Steinbeck worries about "how volcanically, how shatteringly fallible...