Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Western civilization than the problem of Soviet-Western differences. There are 1,700,000,000 people that today are living without sufficient food, shelter, clothing and health facilities. Now they are not going to remain quiescent. They are just going to have an explosion if we don't help...
...here, as President Eisenhower and others have emphasized, that the West can best help. By supplying others with capital, the West may be able to help them achieve more speedily what it took Japan 90 years to accomplish-the transition from a purely agricultural nation to an industrial-and-agricultural nation whose citizens can now clearly foresee the day when they will all enjoy an adequate diet...
Something Done. After spending several weeks of detective work to trace the mysterious outbreak to its common source, the Moroccan government ap pealed to the International Red Cross for help. Moroccan police placed all cooking-oil stocks under their control, stopped sales of the poison stuff (and the spread of the paralysis) outside the Meknes area. They also jailed the 25 merchants. King Mohammed V, whose powers are unlimited by any parliamentary control, put out a royal edict decreeing death for "crimes against the health of the nation," and making the edict retroactive to cover the poison-oil case...
...very impressed by the effort made here to help the students to develop their culture outside of the classroom," Duroselle commented. "Another difference is fostered by the competitive examinations which French students must pass at various stages in their education. Only a small percentage pass these exams and are allowed to continue in school. Therefore, the serious French student has to reject dancing, going to the moving pictures, and so on. There is more of a struggle to pass than in this country. Here the struggle takes place after the university years...
Charlie Ravenel, whose passing has improved, is of course the quarterback, and he may get some real help next year from freshman Charlie Kinney (a fine passer) and some maturing sophomores...