Word: planning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although the Masters this week approved Dean Monro's tentative plan for non-Honors tutorial, it is the departmental chairman, rather than the masters, who will make or break the proposed program. The Departments are already short of manpower, and it will be difficult to find the additional teaching hours required for a non-Honors program...
...struggle to get things done in the timeless, bottomless morass of India. Food production is still at the mercy of the nation's cycles of flood and drought. Huge, multipurpose economic projects start out magnificently and then gradually fall farther and farther behind schedule. The second five-year plan had to be abruptly cut back because it was creating a profitless drain on foreign exchange. "We are riding the tiger of industrialization and can't get off," said Finance Minister T. T. Krishnamachari. Severe restrictions on imports, and new taxes on wealth and expenditures wrung outraged cries from...
Some of India's difficulties can be laid at Nehru's door. He has tried, on occasion, to translate into action his vague and intensely personal theories about socialism, e.g., his plan to spread farm cooperatives across the land. Snapped the Indian Express: "This is not economic realism; this is economic rubbish." Even socialist leaders such as Asoka Mehta complain that for ten years India has been plagued by socialist slogans, "and what have we got? Nothing." Seemingly, the only purpose the slogans and all the patronizing remarks about "the private sector" have served is to frighten away...
...against reality," editorialized the Atlanta Constitution. Indeed, the city's board of education had not only faced reality but accepted it. Ordered by U.S. District Judge Frank A. Hooper to present an acceptable integration plan (TIME, June 15), the board delivered last week on schedule. Proposed: a pupil-placement plan patterned on the Alabama law, which the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled constitutional. If Judge Hooper accepts, Atlanta's 95,000 public-school students (40% Negro) will be integrated a class at a time from the twelfth grade down-a twelve-year process...
...successful is Hong Kong as a garment center that U.S. manufacturers and labor unions now want restrictions on cotton exports to the U.S. Last week Industry Leader C. C. Lee was again hard at work. His association of the most poweful exporters to the U.S. was working out a plan to diversify, set up self-imposed export quotas that will satisfy...