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...technique of building thick-walled, mud-brick houses that instantly collapse on their occupants in an earthquake. After his inspection, the Shah announced plans to rebuild the nation's 50.000 mud-hut villages.* It will take at least 15 years-if new earthquakes do not hasten the task...
...ever think we're doing enough in civil rights," Mrs. Roosevelt told one questioner. She praised the Administration for "using the Attorney General's office much more than ever before to get things done. The more we can hasten desegregation, the better it will...
...Chinese out of the territory they occupy without triggering a conflict that would force him to call in the Western allies to bail him out. But Nehru can no longer afford to let China gobble up any more Indian territory. If India cannot throw the Chinese out, it must hasten its defense buildup to deter Red China from any more land grabbing. If it does not, India may find itself in the grip of a five-finger vise...
...living, with their asceticism, is alien to scientific Communism. To invite people to such Communism is tantamount to slurping milk with an awl. Communism must not be regarded as a table set with empty plates around which sit high-minded and fully equal peoples." The Greatest Failure. To hasten affluence in Russia, Khrushchev in the past eight years has doubled the number of tractors (to 1,168,000) and ruthlessly cannibalized collective farms (250,000 into 40.000). His greatest gamble-and, say some Western critics, his most catastrophic-was to plow $40 billion into marginal virgin lands when the investment...
...Jewish D.P. to Crouchback in Yugoslavia. "It is too simple to say that only the Nazis wanted war. These Communists wanted it too. It was the only way in which they could come to power. Many of my people wanted it, to be revenged on the Germans, to hasten the creation of the national state...