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emerging peoples. New bureaucratic term for sensitive poor nations, replacing underdeveloped countries. See FOREIGN NEWS, The First Battle...
...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 that the problem of the underdeveloped nations is more lasting, more important for Western civilization than the problem of Soviet-Western differences. There are 1,700,000,000 people that...
This represents just about all that can be usefully given away, says a senior U.S. Agriculture Department official. He argues that most poor nations (the polite expression used to be underdeveloped countries, but now planners speak of "emerging peoples") lack the distribution system necessary to get large quantities of free food to the people who need it-partly because their governments have not yet accepted moral responsibility for ensuring that every citizen should get an adequate diet. "And if the U.S. offered to construct such a distribution system," adds the official drily, "I do not think such men as Nehru...
...flow across it. This principle has been known for years, and many efforts have been made to apply it practically, but the trick is not easy. The gas must be so hot (at least 4,000° F.) that it destroys many structural materials. Another problem is the poor conductivity of most gases...
...experience and age-35 to 50 preferred. The rigid combination of musical and managerial talent proved hard to find: one candidate, a lawyer, was washed out because he was high on executive ability but low on musical experience; an opera-company director knew his music thoroughly but seemed a poor administrator. Several were angling for salaries well above the $25,000 to $30,000 range specified...