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Asia is short on specific plans-shorter still on capital-for economic development. There is no dearth, however, of physical or human resources. Its technical advisers in Viet Nam have proved that Taiwan has the kind of electric power, harbor development and agricultural experts necessary for rebuilding war's ruins. Malaysia can join in the reconstruction effort with timber and cement, South Korea with textiles and fertilizer. Indonesia, potentially a major Asian supplier of oil and copper, is even now busily luring the foreign investment necessary to exploit its rich natural resources...
...road a few hundred yards, and overlooking the royal couple's home, are the more sumptuous quarters of Queen Mother Frederika and Princess Irene: a ten-bedroom mansion provided rent-free by Greek Millionaire Felix Mechoulam. Country life for the royal family has had its drawbacks. The dearth of servants is particularly perturbing. The royal court has been trimmed to three, a lady-in-waiting for the Queen and the two business aides for the King. On Saturday afternoons and Sundays, the household help are off, and the family often go to the nearby Olgiata Club for dinner. Other...
...esthetic dry spell is no novelty in the long history of drama. The sands of mediocrity have sometimes silted over the theater for 2,000 years-for example, between the titans of Greek tragedy and the genius of Elizabethan England. The lackluster quality of contemporary U.S. playwriting and the dearth of substantial new talent are simply a gap rather than an omen. The conventional and obvious scapegoat is Broadway, but this is pure fallacy: Broadway, with all its faults, has presented, honored and sustained every major U.S. playwright...
...charges true? The answer, in view of the dearth of scientific research, cannot yet be conclusive. But there is significant evidence in the history of marijuana during the hundred-odd years before 1967, when it was commonly prescribed for sedation, senile insomnia, menstrual disorders, epilepsy, severe neuralgia and migraine...
Sissy Stigma. Nijinsky, though, might have had a good chance. While the U.S. is developing more female dancers than it can productively use, there is still a dearth of male talent. Unlike Denmark, where women curtsy in the street when a ranking male dancer passes by, or Russia, where Bolshoi stars are accorded the same respect given to cosmonauts, the stigma of sissy still lingers in the U.S. Many dance schools offer free scholarships to any boy who will don tights; others patrol athletic clubs to recruit prospects. But the climate is changing: the ratio of girls to boys taking...