Word: hungerers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...neither India nor other needy nations dare rely on largesse much longer. With world population in the past five years growing twice as fast, at 2% a year, as food output, man's struggle against hunger has reached a historic turning point. It has already forced dozens of ill-fed countries to start reshaping their pride-twisted economies. It has upset old notions of geopolitics. Most dramatic of all, it has virtually eaten up the perennial overproduction of U.S. agriculture, whose bounty now feeds one out of every 20 persons in Africa, Latin America and non-Communist Asia...
...years ago, such a proviso might have raised cries of a Western plot against the growth of colored races. Hunger's pressures have helped to calm that fallacious fear. Even in the most unlikely region, Roman Catholic South America, resistance to birth control has dwindled. "Religion is getting out of the way;" says University of Chicago Economist Theodore W. Schultz...
...world. The U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization estimates that per capita food output will actually decline 2% this year and that more than 3,000,000 people will die of malnutrition. This problem has created challenges and opportunities for companies with the talent to help end hunger...
...Boswell papers. With phrases and perceptions long seasoned in sensibility, he builds a warm, complex and radically altered portrait of his subject. The face shows the same old clutter of confusions: arrogance, snobbery, priggery, pushiness, stinginess, grossness, rampant infantilism. But behind the confusions, Pottle perceives the fundamental fear and hunger in the man and, more acutely than any earlier biographer, discerns his peculiar powers: the geysering energy, the shimmering charm, the surging sympathy and undefended heart that left him open to a range of experience the greatest novelists alone outreach. Yet for all his genius, Boswell as Pottle sees...
There were signs last week that it may eventually be the Buddhists who crack. Everything else having failed, Buddhist Ringleader Thich Tri Quang went on a hunger strike, by week's end had lapsed into a near coma that at least served the purpose of keeping him quiet. Thich Tam Chau, spokesman of the Buddhist hierarchy's moderate wing, publicly broke with Tri Quang and the militants. Tri Quang, said Tam Chau, has "no authority to promulgate any decisions" of the hierarchy, adding, "I am not for bringing Buddha into the streets." And in a swift, virtually bloodless...