Word: feed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CHILE is the most European of the west-coast countries, honors-of all people-Bernardo O'Higgins as its first President, and has a long history of constitutional government. Nevertheless, the country's 8,200,000 people, 66% of them part Indian, have never been able to feed themselves; their country, for all the lush wheat-and wine-growing valleys, is still mostly desert and mountain that do not produce enough food for the soaring population. Like Peru's Belaunde, Chile's new President Eduardo Frei offers a vast reform program, including a landmark partnership with...
...growing use of computers in American business but of the increasing automation in the stock market. Funston also hopes to automate trading in odd lots-fewer than 100 shares-which account for one-fifth of daily volume. When an investor places a small order, the broker will feed the information into a computer, which will execute the order at prices ⅛ to ¼ of a point above (buying) or below (selling) the most recent round-lot trade...
...women and children, but sporadic attempts to diversify the economy have ended in disaster. A mining scheme failed (no minerals); an ambitious shark fishery collapsed (no demand). The British government put $2,000,000 into a model poultry farm outside Bathurst, but disease and bad feed killed off the chick ens, and after production of 40,000 eggs-at $50 an egg-the farm was transformed into a teacher's college...
...just the sort of decision to feed the growing public outcry against courts coddling criminals, and the New York Daily News was quick to complain about "judicial concern for accused criminals outweighing judicial concern for the rights and safety of decent people." In fact, the most serious cause for concern rested with the police...
Accidents Will Happen. To hear Coach Mullaney tell it, the whole thing is an accident. A onetime Holy Cross star ("I used to feed Bob Cousy"), he long ago gave up hope of competing for big-name high school players: "We hope to find diamonds in the rough," he says. One day he was chatting amiably with the mother of a freshman named Billy Blair, when Mrs. Blair blurted out: "Billy's a fine player, but have you ever heard of Jim Walker?" Then, in Laurinburg, N.C., a prep school principal assured Mullaney: "Walker is a fine boy. Since...