Word: hungerers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mexican Revolution, the region's liberators tried to turn it into a single nation. Instead, the United States of Central America quickly split into backwater statelets. The backwaters are still backward, but new currents are flowing in them. Since World War II, peasants and Indians have learned that hunger and disease need not be normal, that poverty and ignorance are not man's natural lot. In every presidential palace in Central America, new or remodeled Presidents show themselves aware of the pressure...
...Most Rigorous." Fueled by war babies and hunger for status, the spurt in Ivy League applications ranged from 10% over last year at Cornell to 28% at the University of Pennsylvania. The average: 16%. With an 18% boost in final applications, Princeton's Director of Admission C. William Edwards called the selection job "the most rigorous in my experience." It was just as bad for women's colleges. Radcliffe had 1,000 "well-qualified" applicants for a freshman class...
Named for the 3rd century Babylonian Gnostic Mani, who taught that the Creator is an evil being opposed to the good God, Manichaeans viewed the world as bad and salvation as escape from it. Modern Manichaeans are those whose hunger for the spiritual leads them to disdain the material; they try to make the leap of faith without having their feet planted firmly on the ground...
Patil is a peasant's son who has seen hunger himself. After an apprenticeship as a reporter, he plunged into the rough-and-tumble of Bombay politics, was the city's undisputed political boss for years before he ran for mayor and won. He had nothing in common with Brahmin aristocrats such as Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. Three years ago, when Nehru finally named Patil to the cabinet, it was with reluctance. But within weeks of taking over the Food and Agriculture Ministry last August, Patil devised a daring solution to India's chronic food crisis. Nehru...
...talk infuriates Snow. The individual's condition may be tragic. Snow admits ("Each of us is solitary: each of us dies alone''), but that is no reason why the "social condition" must be tragic, too. For science, after all, promises that no man need die of hunger or disease...