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...million people, many of whom live at a bare subsistence level. With the problem looming even larger than usual this year, the free world last week rallied to feed its hungriest member before threat turns into reality. The U.S., which has already started moving 4,500,000 tons of grain to India, granted a $100 million loan for economic aid. Burma and Thailand agreed to sell more of their rice to India. France, West Germany and Japan started sending powdered milk and vitamins for children and nursing mothers. Italians donated $6,000,000 for Indian famine relief. The response...
...anything happens to the winter harvest. In that case, even foreign aid might not be able to avert widespread famine, since India's overburdened ports and railways would probably be unable to distribute food fast enough throughout the country. What would then be needed would be a massive grain airlift to drop food into the remote needy areas...
...abound in the state's lush tropical forests. And, though more Hindus discreetly eat meat, the vast majority in cow-rich India leave their beef on the hoof for religious reasons. Half of India's people are vegetarians, a fact that creates an especially heavy dependence on grain...
...solve its food problem, India needs both birth control and a massive agricultural program to double its per-acre grain yields. The cost of such an achievement, according to Dr. Roger Revelle, director of Harvard University's Center for Population Studies, would be an enormous $20 billion, much of which would have to come from foreign aid. Until India's parched acres begin to flower, huge shipments of U.S. food-perhaps as much as 15 million tons a year-will be needed to help the subcontinent's masses fend off starvation. Indians should also be educated...
Purity and Joy. For artistic success was not something that came easily to this provincial grain merchant's son. His first student efforts look as if they had been painted in a damp attic. He laboriously copied Louvre masterpieces, lasted only a few days as a student of Academician William-Adolphe Bouguereau, who told him, "You will never learn how to draw...