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...money as a librarian, Fuchs was said to have incurred doubts about Communism. Last week the tall emerald-green gates of Wakefield Prison in northern England swung wide to permit the departure of a black Morris sedan. In the rear seat, together with a police officer and a picnic hamper, sat Klaus Fuchs, at 48 a scrawny, balding man who blinked through thick-lensed, steel-rimmed prison glasses, set free after serving 9½ years, with time off for good conduct...
Four obstacles hamper attainment of goals. The professors cited "grinding" poverty, illiteracy, a shortage of trained people, and rapid population growth as limitations to the development of these nations...
Mason, who works with the governments of Pakistan and Iran in promoting development projects, commented that political and social changes must accompany economic development. Backwardness either in social structure or governmental organization greatly hamper chances for improvement in income...
...there are two prongs to the dilemma. Most of the older professors have dominated their respective departments for decades, and the University feels that the younger man ought to have a chance, too. Thus, while retirement may be sometimes unfair to the older man, retention could certainly hamper the career of the rising young scholar...
...friend and half as a habitual criminal, the general dissatisfaction and unrest of the inter-war period might repeat itself. A new Hitler is improbable, and Germany is not sufficiently powerful any more to terrorize Europe as it has done twice this century, but conditions would certainly hamper general European peace and stability...