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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bright U.S. high school graduates these days, scholarships pop up like gold nuggets in a lucky miner's pan. Last week from its headquarters in Evanston, Ill., the National Merit Scholarship Corp. announced the names of 850 winners-a record crop in the biggest, fastest growing privately supported scholarship program in U.S. history...
...deserving youngsters, started off by testing 56,000 students. This year N.M.S. tested 480,000 (32% of all U.S. high school seniors), has 87 sponsors ranging from Sears, Roebuck, which has financed 350 scholarships so far, to the Central Soya Co. Inc. with one. By the time the 1959 crop graduates from college, the companies will have given some $15 million to 3,000 National Merit scholars. And, beside the actual scholarship winners, 10,000 selected 1959 Merit finalists can count on aid from such other sources as colleges and foundations...
...India now has one of the world's lowest crop yields per acre (the average yield of rice per acre is one-third of Japan's). India uses only a fraction of its potential water supply, one of the world's largest. Shockingly, India gets only a 20% to 25% increase in irrigated lands over nonirrigated...
...Europe, operates like a Marxist. The two leaders, conferring through interpreters (Nkrumah speaks English, Touré French, and they have no common African language), pledged themselves to find ways of "re-enforcing" their union. But actually they were far apart. While Ghana is so flush with its latest cocoa crop that it is embarking on a $930 million five-year development program, Guinea has had to slash government salaries and adopt a budget that leaves no funds at all for development...
Whatever the quality of Mithradates' armies, he himself was such a tough old warrior that, at the age of 68, he still could throw a javelin as well as any of his soldiers and produce from his numerous harem an annual crop of royal children. Defeat only seemed to stimulate his ambition, and in 64 B.C. he was planning to realize a stupendous fantasy-an invasion of Italy from the north, while the main Roman army hunted him in the east...