Word: hungerers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dramatic Breakthrough. Perhaps not. For the first time, India no longer seems forever doomed to live on the edge of hunger-an accomplishment that may be as important for the human race as any other achievement in this century. The reason: a dramatic breakthrough in agriculture known from one end of the vast subcontinent to the other as "the green revolution." Within four years, despite its approximately 540 million population, which is increasing at the rate of 13 million a year, India expects to achieve self-sufficiency in food production. That prospect is the result of a combination of ambitious...
...self-denial and the personal courage of Jan Palach." Student and some union leaders quickly moved to channel the nation's horror and sympathy for Palach into full-scale political protest. First in Prague and then in other cities, they staged memorial marches, vowed to go on hunger strikes and sought meetings with government officials to take up Palach's two demands. Some 20,000 persons marched in a candlelight parade through Prague to the dead youth's university building and took up positions in the square fronting it; ironically, it was named Red Army Square...
...Arnold E. Schaefer of the U.S. Public Health Service has studied nutrition levels in 33 developing nations and, unsurprisingly, found evidence of widespread hunger in most of them. Nearly two years ago, after Congress ordered a nutrition survey, Schaefer focused on his own country and, surprisingly, found that malnutrition is just as severe among the U.S. poor...
...most bewildering of all is the current hunger for black cookery. Soul food, Southern Negro cooking that was born in the slave quarters and is based on ingredients that the plantation owner ordinarily would not have on his table, has become a fad in U.S. dining...
...Jean Mayer, professor of Nutrition in the School of Public Health, has been named chairman of the newly formed National Council on Hunger and Malnutrition...