Word: problems
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Greatest of All . . ." In Shorewood, a suburb of Milwaukee, strapping, 17-year-old George Kalman, once a Hungarian, rolled up a sleeve, displayed the blue, tattooed numbers of the concentration camp on his arm. His hardest problem in the U.S., he said, had been "to adjust myself to being a human being again, not just a number." Sent to the U.S. by United Service for New Americans, Inc., he spent a year in the Milwaukee Jewish Children's home, now lives with foster parents. At Shorewood High School, he plays football, boxes, is an orator of parts...
...Truman announced: "The U.S. Government recognizes the provisional government as the de facto authority of the new state of Israel." Delegates to the U.N. General Assembly meeting at Flushing Meadow heard the news in astonishment (see INTERNATIONAL), quickly wound up their 28 days of futile talk about "the Palestine problem...
...divided Korea social reforms would not be the new government's biggest or most immediate problem. A bigger problem was division itself. In North Korea, Soviet occupation had created a puppet Communist government with an army of more than 100,000 equipped with Soviet guns, vehicles and even a few aircraft. Communist Puppet Dictator Kim Il Sung could use those forces to "unify" Korea whenever occupation troops withdrew...
...that doctors have made it possible for people to live longer, their next problem is to make old age tolerable. This week, in Live Long and Like It (Public Affairs Committee; 20?), a doctor whose specialty is old age suggested a few helpful hints. The author: Dr. C. Ward Crampton, 70, chairman of the New York County Medical Society's committee on geriatrics and gerontology...
...make people want to learn is not a simple problem. Its chief stumbling block in local educational philosophizing has always been the fear that any change in the delicate balance of faculty and students would lead away from the independence of which the University and the College have been so proud. There is a thesis which implies that any change toward making people want to learn will mean a dean's office telling students what courses to take, or perhaps a psychoanalyst asking each man what he is thinking every...