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...Conference of Non-Aligned Countries, a loose-knit organization formed in 1961 during the heat of the cold war by Tito, Egypt's Gamal Nasser and India's Jawaharlal Nehru. Then, the foremost aim of the conference had been to seek means by which the smaller and poorer nations of the world could protect themselves from political and economic encroachment by the superpowers...
TIME Correspondent Herman Nickel, who visited Seoul last week, reports that people are well dressed and well fed, the shops bursting with goods of every description. In the past twelve years, the annual G.N.P. has soared from $95 to $300 per capita. Even in the poorer sections of the capital, such as the squalid shacks which cling precariously to steep hillsides, electric lights, radios and fans are common. A middle class of small entrepreneurs and professionals has emerged...
Until recently, osteopathic schools accepted candidates with poorer educational qualifications than did ordinary medical schools and gave inferior training, with excessive emphasis on spinal manipulation. That is no longer generally true. Most of the nation's seven surviving osteopathic schools have raised their standards and incorporated more general medical subjects in their curriculums. Their graduates are permitted the same professional privileges as M.D.s in all 50 states. Moreover, in 36 states, including Georgia, osteopaths must pass exactly the same examination as M.D.s before they can be licensed to practice. Oliver passed such an exam in Georgia...
...join society and to use her wealth to attract suitors. Instead, with the aid of a sensible uncle, she learns to manage her money wisely and to devote herself to philanthropic affairs -- not by conducting bazaars or charity balls, but by constructing and maintaining low-income housing in the poorer sections of town. She marries in the end, of course, but she marries the professor who respects her, not the handsome dandy who admires and dotes...
...lack of thorough study of Chairman Mao's directives. Persuasion is the keynote-persuasion and reiteration. For two weeks of the six-month course, the cadres are sent off to live with peasant families, where they learn other farming techniques and gain an appreciation of how poorer classes of Chinese have, coped with their problems...