Word: pastes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...preoccupied with the physical problem of feeding the world's people. At the Rome meeting, British Historian Arnold Toynbee apocalyptically declared: "Sooner or later food production will reach its limit. And then, if population is still increasing, famine will do the execution that was done in the past by famine, pestilence and war combined." In Washington, NATO Secretary General Paul-Henri Spaak of Belgium wanted the Western allies to do something useful about "the demand of the poor countries." He and others saw it as more than a problem of cold-war advantage. Recently Dwight Eisenhower remarked: "I believe...
...around Charles de Gaulle that is determined to maintain the mystical sense of grandeur. "We will try to accomplish the dream of France," declared Novelist Andre (Man's Fate) Malraux, after taking over as Minister of State in Charge of Cultural Affairs, "to give back life to its past genius, to give life to its present genius, and to welcome the genius of the world." Last week as Malraux rose to explain his unprecedented cultural budget to the National Assembly, the nation got its chance to see how well the dream was faring...
...policy, and that the proposals offered to China were "sane and practical and give none of our rights away." There were still demands that Nehru fire Krishna Menon, India's lean and irascible Minister of Defense, whom many Congress Party leaders blame for Nehru's past disregard of Red China's encroachments. Loyal to his friends as always, Nehru answered sharply that if there was any fault, it was his own. And Menon himself seemed to be taking hesitant steps toward personal rehabilitation. In a radio address urging Indians to volunteer for the Territorial Army, Menon cried...
Resemblance of Things Past. In Tokyo, after beating four women with a cudgel, Plasterer Shigeo Yokoyama, 30, explained that all of them resembled his wife, with whom he had feuded earlier...
...hoisted the team into the championship playoffs, where it finally lost, 23-17, to the Baltimore Colts in an overtime period. This year the Giant tacklers are tougher than ever, have yielded a grudging 3.0 yds. per rush (league average: 4.1 yds.), given up only eight touchdowns in the past seven games (longest scoring run allowed...