Word: hunger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most enthusiastic endorsement of FPC came last week from Vice President Hubert Humphrey, speaking as chairman of a new national council on marine resources. He called the development of fish flour "a tremendous breakthrough in the war on hunger," and added: "It may be the greatest boon to mankind in helping to give him a sound body and a sound mind since, I guess, the beginning of time." To spread the wealth of fish flour, the U.S. will help three protein-starved nations, as yet unnamed, to set up pilot plants for its production...
...forces. They accounted for more than 50% of the ballots in three previous elections, but their votes had often been canceled out through disunity. This time they formed alliances to overwhelm the Congress Party, whose share of the total vote fell from 44.7% in 1962 to 39.6%. In the hunger-racked West Bengal, 13 parties got together behind a former Congress Party leader and won control of the state. In Kerala, Bihar, Madras and Orissa, opportunistic alliances unseated Congress-controlled state governments...
...feel they have little to say about how undergraduate courses are taught. They have reservations about graduate programs but no means to express them. In general, their influence in the University seems to them incommensurate with their numbers (Harvard has more than 900 TF's) and their importance. They hunger to be consulted on the issues that affect them, and they want some kind of recognition of their function as teachers...
...also writes a book-length report on each tour, which we send to business executives, government officials, educators, labor leaders. This week we are distributing Scott's latest study, done after visits to Asia, South America and Europe. Its title: "Hunger-Must We Starve?" Scott's answer: Not necessarily, provided that man makes the most of modern methods of population control and improves food production. His next subject: Viet...
...allocation of grain "not to exceed 3,000,000 tons" and with the proviso that "it is appropriately matched by other countries." Though that carefully limited proposal caused some consternation in New Delhi, the President made eloquently clear the U.S.'s commitment to a "continuing world campaign against hunger...