Word: problem
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...heresy, or worse, when eminent physicians suggested that the French are getting too much of a good thing (TIME, June 16). So members of the government's High Committee for Study and Information on Alcoholism, chosen in 1954 "for their independence, their authority, and their knowledge of the problem,'' knew just what was expected of them. Last week the gist of the committee's 223-page report leaked to the press. To nobody's surprise, it was heartily in favor of wine...
...with the Economic Cooperation Administration, to study the situation with an eye to formulating a new Government policy. Last week, after distilling answers from questionnaires sent to 955 key U.S. businessmen, Straus issued a report that the State Department heartily endorsed as "a new and fresh look" at the problem...
Onto the television screen flashes the image of a widowed U.S. worker, five little girls and a boy huddled around him. Their problem is spelled out to the viewer: what does a man do if he has six motherless children and no hope of a job? Answers the worker: "I don't want to put them in a home. The nearest thing for me is the river, but that's a horrible thought...
...twin hearings in Seattle and Juneau last week, a Senate Commerce subcommittee stewed over the biggest economic problem of the nation's 49th state. The great salmon fisheries, which normally bring 41% of Alaska's $146 million annual civilian income, are on the verge of destruction. In the past 23 years, the pack has slipped from 8,500,000 cases to 3,000,000 cases in 1958. This year the outlook is for a bare 1,800,000, the lowest level since the canneries started keeping records...
...physical scientists, who last year proposed additional entrance requirements and changes in College admission literature. The first group had advocated establishing achievement requirements in science, mathematics, and foreign languages for all potential freshmen. The proposals, the Dean wrote, were "characterized by a curiously unscientific approach to the problem." In defense of the current admissions requirement, Bender pointed out that additional prerequisites might lead to "a serious decline in the quality of the Harvard student body...