Word: drought
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Before Indira can think about elections, she must deal with a set of dizzying problems that are as big and complex as India itself. The most pressing is food. The worst drought of this century has decimated India's grain harvests. Present estimates place the 1965 crop at less than 75 million tons, a full 13 million tons below the 1964 level...
...India's need is now. In talks with President Johnson and Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman, Subramaniam explained that 1965's drought-decimated harvests had left India at least 13 million tons short of grain to feed its 480 million people. Though the U.S. made no definite promises, there seemed little doubt that President Johnson would step up U.S. grain shipments. As he left Washington, Subramaniam told reporters, "Your great President gave me confidence that the problem will be solved. I go back to my country inspired...
India, thanks to ever-growing torrents of surplus U.S. food, has been able to concentrate on a prestige-building industrial program instead of making a serious effort to expand agricultural production. Its population is growing far faster than its food supply; with this year's severe drought, India faces its most critical food shortage in two decades. Apart from its domestic problems, India in the past adopted a holier-than-thou attitude toward American efforts to thwart the Communists' grab for South Viet Nam, but clamored for U.S. military help to repel Red China's threat...
Born on a drought-stricken Minnesota farm, Mickelson quit high school in 1943, joined the merchant marine-and was sent into radio training. That led to a succession of postwar jobs as radio-station engineer, broadcaster, electronics technician. In 1953 he joined Remington Rand and was put to work designing memory cores for Univac. Computers were in their infancy, and a skilled designer could quickly make a mark in the field...
...Advocate's prose drought continues. Gerald Hillman sets up a psychotic counterpart between the colloquial jabberings of an Italian family and the stilted quarrel of a couple who live upstairs. All this either occurs in or comments on the passive consciousness of Willy, the title character, who has been nudged over some brink by the death of a woman named Anita. "Reality is reality, it's essential," says Mr. White, one of the upstairs wranglers. But Willy's reality rushes chaotically into his mind, scrambled and unpunctuated, hinting at a story line that never fully materializes. Hillman's attempted humor...