Word: foodes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...against gigantism, strike many, including Nehru, as hopelessly unrealistic. But he is a powerful force in India nonetheless. Another of India's big guns, 74-year-old Rajendra Prasad, India's figurehead President, recently wrote Nehru a long letter criticizing basic government policies on unemployment, education, food and industrial development...
...from its colored readers. As vigorous a practitioner as a preacher, the Post four years ago set up a native training program in its composing room (one rule: no loose-flowing laplaps), currently employs 28 New Guineans in Port Moresby at salaries ranging up to $63 a month plus food, lodging, clothing and all the papers they can smoke...
...world going through the throes of a population explosion, earth scientists have rediscovered the sea, remember that the ocean contains the bulk of the earth's life, and that it is probably capable of producing more food than all of the earth's land. Says one oceanographer: "The ocean represents an inner space as important as outer space, but different...
...cope for months with the North Atlantic in all its ferocious moods. She had a rather feeble engine, but sails were her main reliance. Such a laboratory makes oceanography a rugged science. While the little ship rolls and pitches, the scientists work round the clock, snatching bits of food and sleep during quiet intervals in their experiments. Dress is informal. In the Tropics, oceanographers favor ragged shorts or underdrawers; on North Atlantic cruises the men are generally cold and wet, and during the first week at sea most of them get seasick. "The best seagoing oceanographers," says Iselin...
Swarm in Sunlight. With their mounting knowledge, oceanographers are talking with new confidence of the ocean as a source of food. Life began in the sea, and most of it lives there still, grazing on the microscopic plants that swarm in the sunlit upper waters. At the end of a long food-chain (diatoms, protozoa, tiny crustaceans, little fish, etc.) are the fish, lobsters, shrimps and whales that are hunted by humans. Says Iselin: "We are not harvesting the seas. We are just hunting-catching something here and there...