Word: problem
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Handling of the Ruhr problem...
What about professorial fellow travelers and party sympathizers? The problem is more difficult, said Hook, but the solution is simpler. Since such teachers are not under the hard discipline of the party, "they may still be sensitive to the results of honest inquiry. Whatever harm they do is incomparably less than the harm that would result from any attempt to purge them...
...White Nile is a tougher engineering problem. Its two huge lakes, Victoria and Albert, will be made into reservoirs with enough storage capacity to give complete control of the tributary. A lesser dam must be built to control the water in swampy Lake Kioga...
Comic Arthur Godfrey has probably caused the biggest uproar among would-be censors by exhibiting a miniature outhouse and describing it as his "office." But such clear-cut cases of bad taste are not the only problem. Raymond Nelson, director of Du Mont's Fashions on Parade, points to color as one difficulty: on the TV screen, dresses of certain shades of red make a girl look undressed. TV avoids negligees, slips, nightgowns and foundation garments-even on dummies. "No matter how you look at it," says Nelson, "a wax dummy on television is a nude woman...
...South Africa's unsmiling old (67) Finance Minister Nicolaas Christiaan Havenga went right ahead anyway. He ridiculed the Fund's objections. Said he: "It is becoming increasingly clear . . . that . . . the fiction that gold is worth only $35 an ounce cannot endure much longer. This is an international problem and will soon be the touchstone of the success or failure of the Fund...