Word: givings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year 2000," he once explained in his high professorial voice, "we should expect the Bantu population to number 19 million. How will they be handled? These people must work, they must live somewhere. There is only one way out-we are faced with the choice of either giving the white man his own area and the Bantu his, or having one state in which the Bantu will govern." Verwoerd's solution: a series of separate and remote tribal "Bantustans" that will, under "white guidance," be granted a degree of self-government. The scarcity of available land and the staggering...
...more troops; as the French learned in 1954, orthodox methods of war do not work in the jungles of Samneua province where there are no roads and where the monsoon has turned the few tiny airstrips into quagmires. What he wants is money, medical supplies, food and weapons to give to villagers in the threatened countryside. "We must win people's hearts, arm them, organize them into guerrillas and send them after the Reds. We have a saying in our country: 'When the hand is pierced by a thorn, use a thorn to remove it.' The people...
Last week in Upsala, Sweden, Kolb reported his preliminary results to an international conference of physicists. The data indicated that his project has made a significant advance toward the achievement of the first controlled fusion reaction, an objective that could give the human race a source of energy that would last for millions of years: one small bucket of water holds enough heavy hydrogen to make fuel equivalent to 300 gallons of gasoline...
...charges that any changes would have the effect of "reducing the employees to mill slaves and the union to an ineffective puppet." He has even more personal reasons for standing firm: rank-and-file union members are deeply aroused over the threat to local working practices, and they might give McDonald real trouble-perhaps through wildcat strikes-if he permitted any weakening of the clauses...
...rather than replace U.S. private industry abroad. Says he: "I want to see American industry do the job. Instead of promoting state enterprises, let's foster the private side." As head of the Development Loan Fund, he intends to stress private enterprise more than the fund has done, give more loans to foreign businesses instead of governments. He also hopes to get more money from Congress. Right now the fund has $53 million to give out in loans, but the loan applications total $1.4 billion...