Word: formosae
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...fields; with countless innovations, science has vastly increased the yield of the earth. But at a time when the U.S. is glutted with food, Western Europe produces more than it can eat, and per capita farm production rises steadily even in such "underdeveloped" countries as Burma, Thailand and Formosa, the Communist bloc is beset by agricultural troubles that result in belt tightening and hunger...
Accompanying the President and Mrs. Pusey will be R. Keith Kane '22, Corporation member, and Mrs. Kane. The group will tour universities and research centers in Korea, Japan, Formosa, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Thailand, and India...
...China Issue. In the East-West power struggle the trickiest resolution by far would be an old familiar item, admission of Red China to the U.N.-either as an additional member or in place of Formosa's Chinese Nationalists who have held a Security Council seat since 1945. For a decade, U.S. policy has been to keep the question off the agenda, prevent even a debate. But the changed U.N. power balance has led to changed U.S. tactics, and the first test will occur in this week's Security Council meeting...
Peking's Communist government blames it all on the weather. But in a recent study, Hong Kong University Economist E. Stuart Kirby points out that Hong Kong, Formosa and Red China's Kwangtung province all get more or less the same weather. And the weather has unquestionably been bad. But while Hong Kong's crops are off only 8%, and Formosan output is down 13%, Kwangtung's yield has fallen 30%. His conclusion: Red China's problem is not just weather, but a wide demoralization of the peasantry...
...ever seen. The treasures were selected by a jury of Chinese and American experts from an estimated 35,000 items that were saved from the Palace Museum in Peking when first the Japanese invasion and then the Red conquest sent them on travels that ended in great caves in Formosa. The show opened in Washington in May, and before returning home will stop off at Boston, Chicago and San Francisco...